Winning After MidKnight
EDGEWATER- It
just happened to be another day at the office for Reilly Caldwell. Thankfully for
the Middletown High School Knights Girl’s Cross Country team, that day at the office
included her winning the Seahawk Invitational and dropping her time in that
event from last year by almost two minutes.
It was a
banner day for Caldwell as she took the meet in stunning fashion clipping a
solid two minutes off her time and beating out the closest runner by 18
seconds, to pick up where she left off in the 2015-2016 season by winning her
first event since the 2015 Central Maryland Conference Girl’s Cross Country
Championship.
In a field
that was loaded with talent the senior Middletown runner started off her season
with a bang as Caldwell, cementing her place as one of the top runners in the
state, torching the field of 122 runners and setting up what could be her most
memorable year as a runner.
While not
surprising considering how Caldwell has run in the past year, it was a change
from the past as Caldwell did multiple things to break some of her previous
results and buck some of her previous trends.
For starters,
this was the fastest time that Caldwell had ever run on a 5,000 meter course as
she beat her personal record from her 1st place at the 2015 CMC
Championship meet putting up an 18:25.30, which was 0:00.20 better than her
time from the CMC meet last year.
Caldwell also
bucked her best time in season debuts (regardless of whether they were a 5,000
meter course or not) by besting that mark by almost two seconds. Her past two
season debuts had both finished around 20 minutes in length with those two
being the Seahawk Invitational last year and the Brunswick Invitational in
2014.
And finally,
Caldwell also usurped her previous Seahawk Invitational mark as she took that
one down by almost two minutes proving that from last year to this year she has
improved by a large margin.
It wasn’t a
bad day for the Middletown team either as they picked up a 10th
place finish out of 17 teams to start their season. Finishing for the Knights
in support of Caldwell were Molly Greenblat in 67th place with a 22:23.90,
Marylin Fisher in 69th place with a 22:24.70, Sophie Stafford in 75th
place with a 22:58.60, and Annushka Aliev in 79th place with a
23:02.70.
Middletown
will know head to the 2016 Rebel Invitational at South Hagerstown High School
on Saturday September 10th at 9:00 a.m. and Caldwell will be running
again. If Caldwell had put up her best time on a three mile course at the Rebel
Invitational last year (Middletown did not compete in it last year), she would’ve
one the meet by almost 40 seconds.
Caldwell will
try to do exactly that in her next day at the office.
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