ERR Trip to Foot Locker Championships

[roguerunner]

Hey Folks,

It may seem early, but mark you calendars... this trip is coming. Stay posted to the website, information will get posted in about 30 days once the race gets a little closer.

We hope to have runners from all over the area (Not just Carroll County) go with us... so, talk with your parental units, and be ready to reserve your spot.

[CoachSpongeBob]

2006 FOOT LOCKER CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - THE BRONX, NY:

This will be our Fourth Annual Trip to this Regional event. Every year, the trip gets bigger and better. We hope this year will be no different. The bus has been rented and rooms have been reserved. Check back here for details and be ready to make your reservation. Already, we are having a lot of people asking about the trip this year. We have a strong interest from teams outside of Carroll County who are thinking about joining us for the trek to New York. Club Member Beth Kobett is organizing the trip and you can e-mail her for information at [e-mail].


Depart: Friday, November 24th from Liberty High School
Race: Van Courtland Park, Bronx, NY Saturday (11/25)
Return: Sunday Afternoon, November 26th to Liberty High School


We travel by charter bus to NYC. Rest, consume carbs, compete, spend a few hours in NYC on Saturday night, and return on Sunday. The Cost includes: Travel to NYC, Room reservation, a pasta dinner on Friday Night, an ERR race singlet and membership into ERR (if not already a member).

For information go to www.errun.org/FootLocker2006.asp

[CoachSpongeBob]

Last year we had a great group, 26 athletes from 6 different schools. Some came for one last xc race in their high school careers, others for the experience, and some did extremely well. Here is how a few of our athletes did compared to other Maryland competition that day:

Andrew Cross - Top Maryland Finisher in the Boys Freshman Race
Eric Liberatore - Top Maryland Finisher in the Boys Sophomore Race
Jared Welsh - Top Maryland Finisher in the Boys Junior Race
Jim Ridder - 2nd Maryland Finisher in the Boys Senior Race
Kyle Ryan - 2nd Maryland Finisher in the Boys Seeded Race
Katie Hursey - 2nd Maryland Finisher in the Girls Seeded Race

[CoachSpongeBob]

They currently have 15 people signed up already. They are looking into the possibiltiy of getting a bigger bus cause it looks like we may max out this year.

[CoachSpongeBob]

Now they have 21 runners from 3 different schools signed up. Also have gotten e-mails and questions from a number of runners. I think they may get someone from every school in the county this year, I hope they do.

Anybody hoping to go that hasn't told us yet, let us know, so we can check with you later. It's a fun trip.

[roguerunner]

This is crazy - the information on the other forums is more current than our own!

Okay - we are up to 34 confirmed runners from 9 schools. We have people from the following schools registered:
Century
Frederick
FSK
Liberty
Linganore
North Carroll
River Hill
Westmisnter
Winters Mill

Rumors are that a few of the South Carroll Runners are handing in registrations at the Regional.

Also, if we count the people who say "I put it in the mail" we have 12 registrations on the way.
Urbana

[CoachSpongeBob]

As of today we have 45 kids from 9 schools signed up. A couple people told us they mailed them yesterday, and one is dropping it off tomorrow, so it looks like we will hit our max number of 49.

[CoachSpongeBob]

Macharia Yuot (6 time national champion, two time indoor 1500 national champion, first ncaa runner to win a national championship in the 10,000 [thursday], steeplechase [friday] and 5,000 [saturday] this past spring, won the xc national championships this weekend, then the next day ran the philadelphia marathon in 2:25 finishing 6th just 2 minutes from Olympic trials qualifying) will be running with ERR when we stop to run on Friday on our way to the Foot Locker Championships. He is excited to meet everybody going, it will be his first run since his exciting weekend. A couple other college athletes may also be joining us.

[CoachCortezFSK]

quick question and yes i should already know this but at what time are we meeting friday morning?

[CoachSpongeBob]

Here is some of the ERR results from the race:

www.errun.org/ERRFootLockerResults2006.asp