With 37 H+P athletes out to tackle the heat and new course, the team had a great time at the 2016 Waterloo Classic. Aside from our usual set of PBs and team results, the team also waged war on itself via the epic #JJvsNK challenge!
Here’s how the battle went down:
5K: Jon vs. Kristin
In the 5K Battle, Team Jon was able to edge out Team Kristin with an average time of 21:48, 26s ahead of Team Kristin. SCORE: 1-0 for Team JJ.
In the captain’s battle, Jon and Kristin traded running blows right to the bitter end. Jon was somehow able to hit a 22:01 PB in the heat, ahead of his rival. SCORE: 2.51-0 for Team JJ.
10K: Nick vs. Jordan
In the 10K Battle, team Nick was able to come out on top with an average time of 42:34, 35 seconds ahead of Team Jordan (just for fun and to keep things interesting on race day for team JJ, this difference is with a generous 39 minute place holder for the sick Aron Mailman who was forced to drop out the morning of the race). Without this 39min placer, team Jordan comes in with a 47:07 average time and over 4 minutes behind team Nick. Which is more official? You decide! In the end, the score sits at: SCORE: 2.51-1 for Team JJ.
In the captain’s battle, Nick was able to take down Jordan with an outstanding 36:40 finish (season series 2-1 for Nick among these two ruthless rivals). SCORE: TIED at 2.51-2.51
COMBINED
With Nick’s 10K team finishing 35s ahead of team Jordan (or 4+ minutes without the placer), this means that team NK took home the combined 5K + 10K battle. FINAL SCORE: 5.51-2.51 for Team NK
Congrats to everybody on Team NK for taking home the win in this #JJvsNK battle! It was a very close in the end filled with many surprising individual results.
Full Results:
Check out our full 10K rankings page HERE and our 5K rankings page HERE.
Some key results include:
5K
New H+Per Erin McClure posted an epic new club record of 17:25 in the 5K, and also came out with the win in the 5K!
Jon Krys was one of the ONLY people to post a PB on this very tough day. 22:01, a massive 21s better than his previous best!
Miles ran his FIRST 5K ever, coming in with a 41min finish, and looked good doing it!
10K
The team had 2 athletes on the OA podium for men (Sean and Nick) and four runners in the top 10 OA. On the women’s side, Coach Gill placed 2nd OA, with Emily placing 6th OA.
Despite the heat, we still had some runners post outstanding PBs. Martin ran a very solid PB of 39:34, while Coffee posted a 44:40 PB. Brian and Terry both posted PBs as well, coming in with 46:00 and 46:12 finish times respectively.
The 10K team (Sean, Nick, Greg, Dave, Jordan) also came out on top of the Open Team competition with an average time of 37:31.
Finally, a huge thanks to our support crew that came out to take pictures and yell at us to go faster! Val, Kailey, Pat, Anand, Bill, Dawn, Laura…you guys are awesome!
Another outstanding Classic for H+P in the books! Onwards to the #SummerTT!
#cantwontstop
