Nikhil and Annika ran in the Tustin Dino Dash 5K. Nikhil crashed through the 20 minute barrier. This was Annika’s first time at the Dino Dash. There were about 2000 runners in the race. You can see Annika in the green shirt in the back of the picture. Here is Nikhil near the finish on [...]
Archive for the ‘Cross Country’ Category
Dino Dash 5K 2009
Posted in Cross Country, tagged 5K, Dino Dash, Running on November 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mt. Sac Middle and Elementary School Races
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country, Running on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weekends ago, Nikhil and Annika ran at the Mt. Sac races. This is the largest cross country meet in the US. Here is Annika finishing up her 2K race. She finished in the top 15 in a field of about 100. Nikhil’s race was a 3K and even more competitive with a [...]
Wildcats Meet in Irvine
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country, Running on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nikhil and Annika ran a 3K and 2K at the Wildcats meet at the Wild Animal Park in Irvine this past weekend. Here are a couple of pictures. Here she is with her 5th place medal finish among the sub-bantam girls. She got a 9:20 something time for the 2K improving by about a minute [...]
Corona Meet
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country, Running on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend, Nikhil and Annika ran at a meet in Corona – the first one of the season. Nikhil ran a 3K race and finished in 12:25. Annika ran her very first cross country race. It was a 2K that she ran in about 10 minutes and placed 10th.
Guy Poncy 5K 2009
Posted in Cross Country, tagged 5K, Cross Country, Running on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cross Country season started and Annika and Nikhil ran their first 5K’s of the season at the Guy Poncy Memorial 5K held at Anaheim Stadium. Here is a link to the race results which were not easy to find! Nikhil picked up where he left off last year and ran a 20:41 (6:40 pace). Last [...]
Irvine 5K
Posted in Cross Country on January 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend, Nikhil ran in the Irvine 5K. He placed second in the 11-12 age group. He got a 21:11 race time.
Dino Dash 2008
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country, Dino Dash, Running on November 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nikhil ran in the Tustin Dino Dash 5K this morning. This was his second time and he improved from his previous time by a whopping six minutes and nine seconds. Last year he got 26:39 and this year, his time was 20:30! The course was a full 5K which means he averaged about a 6:35 [...]
Cross Country
Posted in Cross Country on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nikhil has been running Cross Country again this season. Yesterday he ran at the Mt. Sac Regionals in the 6th Grade Middle School Regionals. He improved on his time from last year by almost 2 minutes to 9:56 for this 1.2 mile course. He placed 44th and needed another 40 seconds to medal in the [...]
Guy Poncy 5K at the Block
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country, Running, Sports on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nikhil ran his first 5K of the season on Sunday in the Guy Poncy 5K at the Block in Orange. We haven’t done any running during summer break yet he still ran a 26:07.
Dinosaur Dash Tustin 5K 2007
Posted in Cross Country, tagged 5K, Cross Country, Dinosaur Dash, Tustin on November 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today was the 5K Dino Dash in Tustin. Nikhil and I both ran. No good pictures since we were both running and I couldn’t stop for pics. We both ran hard and Nikhil finished at 26:39 minutes and I finished at 27:19 minutes. This is his second 5K and looks like it is about a [...]
Mt. Sac 2K
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nikhil ran in the Mt. Sac 2K billed as the world’s largest Cross Country Meet. More about Mt. Sac. There were 24 races ranging from 0.8 mile for the 3rd graders to about 4 miles for the high schoolers. There were over 20,000 kids for the set of races from all over Southern California. He [...]
First 5K
Posted in Cross Country, tagged Cross Country on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Nikhil ran his first 5K this weekend. He has been training with the Equalizers for about 5-6 weeks now and he participated in the Chapman University Toyota of Orange 5K Run. He had a time of 27:09 and got 231st place out of 525 finishers - pretty good for a 10 year old. He beat [...]
More Cross Country
Posted in Cross Country, Running, tagged Cross Country, Kids, Running on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we went to practice at Foothill high school. The miles are getting easier. The kids did 1 mile of warm up laps and then we either go out running for an additional 3-4 or work on running techniques. The coach timed all the kids on a straight flat dirt trail. Nikhil did a 3:14 [...]
Cross Country
Posted in Cross Country on September 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Two weeks ago Nikhil started a cross country running program. He joined the Equalizer Track Club. They started off with some 1-2 mile runs two weeks ago. Last week it was 2 mile runs 3 times. Then on Saturday morning we went on a 4 mile run. Here is Nikhil after the run on Saturday. [...]