On Friday 9/21, Brian and I went to the Toledo Cross Country Inter-Regional Bubble Buster meet at Ottawa Park. There were lots of teams from big schools there:
The course they ran was somewhat similar to the one used at the NCAA Regional meet that my dad and I went to last year, so we found a good spot that the runners would pass several times.
The Men’s race was first…and UT Men are not super great. I think it is because UT doesn’t have Men’s Track & Field (there is a women’s team), so dudes who are serious about their running go somewhere else. Syracuse had 93023 runners in the men’s race, and they were all pretty good…Here’s a picture of the lead runners (all Syracuse and the EMU dude who eventually won):
Syracuse dominating at the end from a distance:
There were more Women’s teams, since UT’s Women’s team is good, and I thought the starting line looked cool:
This came through the course ahead of the lead runners for both races, complete with screaming cross country coach:
Lady race leaders, probably about halfway through the race:
When we finally started to leave Ottawa Park, we saw these dudes:
