Hey FLRunners, my name is Blake Riley and I go to Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida. First off I just wanted to thank Todd Grasley and FLRunners for allowing me to share my meet experience with you. Before I get into my meet, I just wanted to congratulate any runners who obtained a PR this past meet and a job well done to all the teams who had a successful meet. This past weekend my team and I had our thirrd meet at the Bradenton Runners Club Invitational at GT Bray Park in Bradenton, Florida. This race was more of a local race, so every team is “sort of” rivals. Some teams that went other than my team were Sarasota High, Cardinal Mooney High, Bayshore High, Lakewood Ranch High, Port Charlotte High, Venice High, Lemon Bay High, and many others.
For the girls varsity race, the individual champion was Grace Casagrande from Cardinal Mooney High School with a 19:22. Sarasota High School took home the team title for the girls led by freshman Sage Lyons and Junior Angelina Grebe. As for the boys, the Individual champion was Junior Zack Summerall of Sarasota High with a time of 15:52, closely followed by his Sophomore teammate Adam Bradtmueller with a 16:00. The Sarasota boys took home the team title followed by my team Sarasota Riverview by only nine points. It was a really close meet, but Sarasota had great PR's so congratulations to their team: Zack Summerall, Adam Bradtmuellerr, Brandon Drumm, Brian Kerry, and Reigh Diaz. I came in 4th overall behind Tyler Fisher with a16:41. It was a pretty fair course, not too hard, but not too easy.
Next week we will be at the North Port XC Invitational which is a BIG meet that will have lots of competition like Fort Myers, Estero, Sarasota, Land O Lakes, and many more. For next week my main goal is to break 16:00 for the first time.
Good luck to all the runners at their next meet and any runners who are going to North Port don't be shy and come say hello to me I would love to talk and meet new runners! Until next time...
