Jays set to run at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational

Chas Davis: Everyone still runs in the same race, but every team is scored separately against each other as if the other runners/teams weren’t in the race.   Nice for coaches & teams to see how they stack up runner for runner with another single team.

Davis: More experience and a faster course.  Most of our women improved their time between 30 and 50 seconds, though, & that course wasn’t automatically 30s faster than the week before.  Smart start by our women who gradually moved up instead of getting drawn out too fast from the gun was a big factor in solid improvements.

Davis:  I analyze every little thing when it comes down to their races & how we execute.  It’s nice just to be able to focus on one race – less to get distracted by if one person is having a bad race.   I also like having a lot more time to discuss the race with athletes instead of having to get ready for the next race, which is often the men right afterward.

Davis: You can tell these guys are itching to get back out there and race again in what is really their first competition where they feel well prepared to compete.  Everything so far has just been training, even our first race at Chili Greens.

Davis: Chris and Casey will be back.  Both will be using this as a rust buster for their first race of the season. We’re holding Mike Hitt out, who was our #1 at our first race.  He’s getting over some slight quad tendonitis and a strain, so we’re just being careful this early.  Even though we compete twice in September, we still take this month primarily all as training.  October and November is what matters.