For the second week in a row, we ventured out west to run in the country, this time in Waynesboro VA at the Grace Christian Invitational.

We ran well on a wet and hilly course. Our girls finished in a tie for third with Eastern Mennonite School, but EMS was awarded 3rd because of the sixth place runner - their sixth was one place ahead of ours.   Then our boys finished third, by a single point, to Eastern Mennonite (again!).   More on that below.

We had a couple of top ten finishers: Rose Waldron (10th) for girls, Michael Brand (4th) and Patrick Gross (9th) for boys.  There were a couple of personal bests: Daniel Jackson, Max Wilson, Nick Vaughan and Colette Kramer.  In addition, three of our sevvie boys ran the middle school 2 mile, with Peter Russo coming in at 14:30.7, Greyson Shambaugh at 14:49 ( a drop of over 2 minutes from his time in September) and Robert Chiappetta at 15:14.7.  

About that third place finish for our boys...  after the boys won the Generals Invitational the previous week by having our 1st through 5th runners finishing in only a 41 second span, we lost out on a second place trophy to Eastern Mennonite when they turned the tables on us by bunching their first through fifth tighter than we did:

Results

Link to Milesplit: https://va.milesplit.com/meets/562190-grace-christian-staunton-invitational-2023/results