A Festival only fit for Champions.

Festival of champions. An early Saturday every October where instead of sleeping in, over sixty teams wake up with the sun, screw in their half inch spikes and preview the trails at Troy Howard Middle School for one of six races. This year, we were extremely fortunate because it didn't rain during the day like the downpour we experienced in '09, although the course was pretty mushy from the previous night's rain. The course got progressively worse throughout the day, so maybe "progress"ively is not the best word choice :P Our girls ended up 7th and the boys were 9th with five individuals receiving medals. Alex Chandler, Abby Lochala and Hannah Chaney all place in the top ten in the unseeded races while Gwen Beacham and myself were included in the top twenty finishers in the seeded race. The medals are always really cool because their centers swivel around! I especially love this race because the race numbers have everybody's names on them, so it is always fun cheering for literally everyone like I know them personally. Louisa and I entertained ourselves by going up to random people and congratulating them on their races. We got so many confused looks :P Congrats to Abbey Leonardi for setting a new girl's course record of 17:58, and also well done team Canada for your interesting male vocals while singing O Canada!
KKNW, Addie

On top: Abby Lochala and Addie Cullenberg.
On bottom: Hannah Chaney, Alex Chandler and Gwen Beacham.