I’ll be stopping by school in the first week and talking to boys that are interested in joining the Cross Country Team.  All basketball players are strongly encouraged to join for basketball conditioning.  I’m working on the schedule for the year right now and I’ll be posting that shortly.  I am anticipating that practice will start the second week of school.  My current plan is to train for at least 2 or 3 races through-out the year.  I will be asking the boys if they would rather pay race entrance fees or participate in a fund raiser that I set up to defer those costs.

Brian Petro

Congratulations to James and David. They both scored new personal records on the Human Race 10k this last weekend. There times were:

James: 45:32 (13th out of 42 in his category – males 14 to 19 years old)
David: 55:03 (15th out of 26 in his category – males 10 to 13 years old)

Good job guys!

What a great race!  It was cold but there were lots of people to cheer us on.  Thanks so much to the cheering section.  I don’t have the official times in yet, but I have been informed that Ryan took 2nd place for his age division and David took first for his age division.  I fully expect that multiple personal records were set.  Good job guys!

Important note to all runner’s parents:

1)  We’ve got a race coming up the morning of Saturday Dec 20th in Santa Rosa.  I’ll be signing up for the race this week.  I need every runner to confirm that they will be running the race immediately.  I’ll be paying the race admission out of the funds that we raised with the car wash so I won’t need any money. 

2)  I’m working on purchasing some team running shirts.  All runners need to let me know what size to purchase.  The shirts cost around $40 so make sure you tell me the correct size.  They will not shrink at all so don’t buy big thinking they will shrink.  Here’s the sizing chart:  http://www.runningbanana.com/chart.html  Please get back to me with this sizes immediately.  We just gained some new team members yesterday and I want to make sure they stick before purchasing shirts for them so for this first round we’ll just be purchasing for Michael, James and David.  I will be using funds that we raised during our car wash to make this purchase so I won’t need any money.

3)  I’m looking at what races we should run in 2009.  Please let me know for each runner if they can make each race:

• Saturday March 21 – San Francisco
• Saturday March 28 - Napa
• Saturday May 9 – Santa Rosa

We won’t be doing all these races.  I’m just trying to find out which ones the runners are available for.

You can email your responses to me at:  brian@bbcacrusaders.org

PARENTS – SIBLINGS – FREINDS – TEACHERS – FELLOW STUDENTS – Let’s all attend these races and cheer the team on!  They work hard and will really appreciate your support!