QSSF

[jbrecher]

I see that today's QSSF XC Championship results are now online.

Women:
results.sportstats.ca/res2009/plaine3.htm

Men:
results.sportstats.ca/res2009/plaine2.htm

Catherine Cormier (Laval) and Baghdad Rachem (Sherbrooke) easily won their respective races - each was more than 30 seconds ahead of the next university runner.

Cormier ran nearly a minute faster than at CIs last year, at the same venue (the Plains of Abraham). Is this mainly due to much better weather, or is she also much fitter than she was last year? Or is the course slightly different? Or all of the above?

Journeyman, we await your race report.

[Chris Moulton]

AUS are here www.atlanticuniversitysport.com/mens/crosscountry/2009_AUS_CC_Results.pdf

[journeyman]

Teams were:

Men:
Sherbrooke 33
Laval 61
McGill 61
Concordia 70 (modified from before)

Women (team scores revealed!)
Laval 31
Sherbrooke 40
McGill 49
Concordia 118

It rained for the women's race, but not the men. The men ran 5x2k loop (same as at the race three weeks ago). 10k course was accurate. Women's race was 2.5 loops, the start was a big ugly mess, the course was narrowed far too quickly, not sure if start was exactly half the loop. The course was not the same as CIS, not sure why not.

Concordia ran without our top man, Colle, as he is a bit injured. If all goes well he'll be back for CIS (we should be able to send 5 guys). Likely would have been second as a team with him, but coulda woulda shoulda... I usually keep these updates objective, but I want to say I'm proud of our team, we knocked off huge amounts of time. One guy ran 3min faster than last year (36 to 33) and most of our guys split 8k faster than they ran it three weeks ago on the same course. Ryan Hodge (QSSF rookie of the year) has not touched the ground in 3 weeks other than to race. He has been diligent in the pool and bike and still managed a great race, but he said he felt the lack of ground training. Women were great as well, normally 5 women from 19:36-20:30 is good enough for top two in our conference but the teams have all really stepped it up. Laval should be a serious medal threat in Kingston. We'll probably send a women's team as well.

[qcu]

The information about the loop was out long time ago. I just asked the Laval's coach at the R&Or invitation 3 weeks ago about the provincial course and he told me that it was going to be the exact same course that we raced that day.

But i agree that the women start was a big mess.

[journeyman]

Nov 2, 2009 10:17:29 GMT -5 qcu said:

The information about the loop was out long time ago. I just asked the Laval's coach at the R&Or invitation 3 weeks ago about the provincial course and he told me that it was going to be the exact same course that we raced that day.

But i agree that the women start was a big mess.

The information was not in the official race package sent to the coaches. It was a miscommunication. Some people assumed it would be 2.5k (myself among them, maybe I was the only one...) and others assumed 2k. Not a big deal.

It was recently confirmed to me that the loop was in fact measured at 1999.3m and a flag was moved to get the extra 70m, so it was as close to 2k exactly as you are going to get for a cross country course. ROC take note: those are some good times, as this is not an easy course.

[eeen]

Wow if the course is accurate, those are some BLAZING times for both the men and women. Nice to see Quebecois distance running strengthening again.