Kile Krol

Past Entries

Entry 1

September 19, 2005

This past week the team raced at the Vanderbilt Invitational, which is the hometown of Bryan Forsyth. The race actually was pushed back a week, which allowed for another week of intense training. We had a tough workout on Tuesday in Piedmont Park doing mile repeats in the foamy grass, but it paid dividends. On Saturday, as a team, for as long as I have been at Emory, we hadn't raced to our plan more perfectly. Our top runners went out what looked slow and hit pace exactly. We were probably in 30th place after the first mile, but that is when we started picking off runners left and right for the rest of the race. I do not think it could have worked any better. Forsyth led the team with an impressive 2nd overall finish with Rob (Leventhal) and I following behind in 5th and 6th respectively. Jeff Roland proved that mono was the cause of a sub-par season last year with a nice finish behind Rob and I. On a side note, Michael Rothbart indeed finished the race this week after a disappointing race at Sewanee. His confidence is now back and we are looking for big things from him in ensuing races.

Freshmen are always good to have on a team especially when they end up in your top 5. Isaac (Zimmerman) aka Mouse, finished fifth for the team, showing he worked hard this summer to help out the team. We were missing our other potential freshmen stud Vikram (Srivastava) due to illness, but with him in the mix our team is looking rather nice.

The most impressive fact from our race this weekend, which gives me personally great hopes for our team, was our 1-5 split being 45 seconds. This is without Rothbart at full strength and Vikram even racing. We could have our top 7 under 1:00 minute. Anytime a team has a 1-7 split under 1:00 minute, it is tough to beat. This is encouraging because as a young team with no returning seniors, we now know the potential is there. Now all we have to do is continue to work hard and drop our times together.

Emory's men's cross country team has not lost a regional meet in a long time, and we do not plan on breaking this tradition.

Kile Krolis a junior from Moline, Ill. He would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.