Max Straneva

Timpview's Aidan Troutner (UT) ran the 20th all-time fastest boys 5K at the NXN National Championships en route to victory in 2017.

Can any boy break on to the Top Ten All-Time?

  Photo courtesy John Olson, SCRUNNERS                                                    

So much attention is payed to the "big guys", the class AA and A schools, that sometimes it's nice to take a look at the smaller team that will be battling for NY State supremecy. Coach Ed Stickles of Bronxville takes a look at the boys of Class C.    

This week's How They Train features Max Straneva of Chenango Valley. Straneva won the Class A state championship two weeks ago and finished second at the federation meet. How They Train is designed to give an in-depth look at how runners just like you train around the state. Since there's no uniform formula we decided to find out yours.

WAPPINGERS FALLS – Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake coach Shaun Zepf said his team wanted a nasty course. He said they hoped for rain and mud. They got both.

WAPPINGERS FALLS – Any runner that has compete at North Rockland with Barry Baloga as his coach would know, if nothing else, that Baloga is good for a solid speech. Baloga, an English teacher, started this one with a line from a poem by Robert Frost.