Luckily the thunderstorms held off long enough for the Wheatridge Cross Country team to run their second-to-last meet at Celebration Park on Wednesday. The runners had amazing times, with twelve of them setting personal records (PR) and one of them setting a new school record! Seventh grade girls fared well with Kenzie Gust earning an 8th place medal by running a 6:38 (PR), Shelby Baldwin getting place 16th with a time of 7:07 (PR), and Erin Smith getting 42nd place with a time of 9:50 (PR). Mitch Lumley ran a fantastic race and set a new record at Wheatridge Middle School for seventh grade boys with a time of 5:55 (PR)! Chase Eccles earned 30th with a time of 6:45 (PR), Jackson Edwards earned 56th with a time of 7:59 (PR), Triston Gibson earned 57th with a time of 8:11 (PR), Kole Edwards earned 59th with a time of 8:22 (PR), and Logan Kleinsorge earned 60th place with a time of 8:37 (PR).
The eighth grade girls and boys races were run together to ensure all runners were done before the inclement weather hit. Jamie Gaither earned 14th place with a time of 14:34 (PR), Skyler Bartels earned 22nd place with a time of 15:09, and Haley Meyer earned 31st place with a time of 15:51. Timothy Stuart led the pack and took a first place medal, for the second time this season at Celebration Park, with a time of 12:02 (PR). Rodolfo Berrum earned a fourth place medal with a time of 12:23, Noah Spencer took 25th place with a time of 14:01 (PR), Trenton Bilhimer took 48th place with a time of 16:18, and Taylor Lindburg took 69th place with a time of 21:47. Wheatridge runners looks forward to rounding up their season next Thursday at Eudora!