John Washington

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September 20, 2004

Last week was an unusual one. With Hurricane Ivan forcing our Thursday workout inside, it was lucky that we were able to have near perfect conditions for the Clemson Invitational last Saturday.

The meet went well for our team, we finished third overall against some strong Division I competition, again highlighted by some great individual performances. We have yet to completely reach our full potential and run well as an entire team.

That's going to be our focus over the next two weeks. In order to succeed in our post-season goals, Coach Graham feels we need to focus on pack running. From now on he is going to really encourage us to stay in our groups during all of our workouts, so that hopefully when it comes time to race, we can stay together.

Aside from the lack of group running, most of the team looked strong last weekend. Our three senior front runners--Andrew Podgurski, Jon High, and Owen Farcy--all ran well. And Kile Krol and Bryan Forsyth also ran impressive times to finish off our top five. Hopefully next race we will close the gap between our runners and place better as a team.

John Washington is a senior from Horsham, Pa. He would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.