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Monday, April 23, 2012

Spiders Busy Weekend at 2012 Mt SAC Relays, Princeton and CNU

VIDEO PLAYLIST from 2012 Mt SAC Relays

Our teams were split this past weekend between the Mt SAC Relays in Walnut, CA...the Princeton Invitational in Princeton, NJ and the CNU Invitational in Newport News, VA...Here are our results:

Jason Skipper (JR) and Liz Schinski (SO) were victorious this weekend
for the Spiders.

Underclassmen Strong as Spiders Wrap up Weekend

Richmond's 2012 Fred Hardy Invitational (March 29-30)

Both days of the 2012 Fred Hardy Invitational were streamed live on SpiderTV. Links to both day's video streams along with a complete timeline detailing each event's and interview's start time in relation to the video stream can be found below

Friday's Full-Length Video Stream

2011 Spiders Support Local Communities Through Running

Andrew Valenski (#676) on his way to victory in the
National Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Long Island Chapter 5K.

Several members of the Richmond men's and women's cross country teams went home for Thanksgiving and supported their local charitable groups through participation in and providing contributions to road races that raise awareness and funding for the non-profit organizations:

Richmond Spiders Win William & Mary XC Invitational

Sophomore, Jill Prentice returned to the Spiders lineup
this past weekend. An NCAA 5K East Region
Championships qualifier last spring,
Prentice ran a meet record 17:37 to lead the Spiders
to victory over William & Mary and Hampton.

Practice at Roslyn

Roslyn Episcopal Retreat Center is a little over a mile from campus and one of the locations we do our workouts...Their property offers lots of hills and lies next to the James River which serves as a perfect backdrop for a hard effort.

Stephanie Paradis and Clare Moretz climb "Jacobs Ladder" at Roslyn just before the sun comes up...Jacobs Ladder is a very steep hill on the property that is well known to runners who grew up in the Richmond area...

Jacobs Ladder at Roslyn.

Stephanie Paradis and Clare Moretz run along the canal (Note: The canal was built in 1790 as the first commercial canal in the United States, stretching from Richmond to Westham and paralleling the James for 7 miles)...

...then climb by repeating Jacobs Ladder...

Billy Fayette and Ryan Lee on Jacobs Ladder...

Shadow runner as the sun comes up...

Ryan Lee, Billy Fayette, Stephanie Paradis and Clare Moretz getting work in between the climbs...

Jason Skipper and Chris York work together...

Liz Schinski

Adam Owens and Conor Phelan...

The women's team on their recovery...

Matthew Groff, Paul Myer (green shorts), Patrick Love (red shorts) and Tim Becker...

Jill Prentice

Roxanne Henningson, Allie Stapleton and Coach Lori Taylor...

(R-L) Chris York, Conor Phelan and Adam Owens...

Paul Myer and Matthew Groff...

The women's team finishing hills...

Chris York, Conor Phelan and Adam Owens doing the same...

(R-L) Ryan Lee and Billy Fayette speak with assistant coaches Andrew Benford and Jon Molz following their workout.

Coach Lori Taylor speaks with the women's team following the workout...

Andrew Benford lifting in the Bugg weight room in the Robins Center...

Monday, August 22, 2011

Spider XC Squads Conclude Preseason Camp - RichmondSpiders.com - The Official Athletic Website of the University of Richmond

(L-R) Row 1- Stephanie Paradis, Allie Stapleton, Jill Prentice, Clare Moretz, Roxanne Henningson, Taylor Clevinger, Lydia Morton...Row 2-Amanda Lineberry, Dana Guglielmo, Beth Kelly, Liz Schinski, Jason Skipper, Billy Fayette, Tim Becker, Paul Myer, Matthew Groff...Row 3- Patrick Love, Andrew Valenski, Ryan Lee, Conor Phelan, Chris York, Kyle Ragan, Adam Owens.

Spider XC Squads Conclude Preseason Camp - RichmondSpiders.com - The Official Athletic Website of the University of Richmond

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Spiders 2011 Preseason Cross Country Camp (DAYS 3 & 4-Mountains Call/Panther Falls)

Day 3 began early with a run from Buena Vista to the Blue Ridge Parkway...Buena Vista is a town of roughly 6,000 at the base of the West side of the Blue Ridge Mountains sitting at roughly 500' above sea level. Our team mission for this day was a hard and fast effort to climb the ~2,000' of elevation gain spread over a 4 mile climb... it helped accomplish many of our early preseason goals while finding the grit of our team.

Team stretching before their morning workout....

Team gets instructions on the workout before the warm-up...

The climb began on South Hazel...We chuckled last year at the "Grizzly" Lane sign and commented that it might be a foreshadow of what was to come.

Men warming up...

Men's team warming up...

Women's team warming up...

Men's workout begins...

Where the sidewalk ends and the road begins...

Paul Myer, Kyle Ragan, Patrick Love and Tim Becker with 3 1/2 miles to go.

Adam Owens...

Freshman Matthew Groff.

Recent Richmond graduate Andrew Benford is now an assistant coach for the Spiders team while training for the 2012 Olympic Track & Field Trials...He led the team up the mountain.

Nice improvement for Conor Phelan over last year...

Billy Fayette leads Ryan Lee as they top out the mountain.

Matthew Groff finishing the workout...

Kyle Ragan as he finishes...

Roxanne Henningson at the top.

Stephanie Paradis finishing...

Lydia Morton and Clare Moretz...

Blue Ridge Parkway at the top of the climb with a view of where the team started their run...

A view towards where we started...

A close-up...In the distance you see the white roof of Perry McCluer HS where we started...

PANTHER FALLS:

Conor Phelan leaps off the high side...Panther Falls was the perfect place to relax following the hard workout. Located in the George Washington National Forest, the falls provide a great place to cool off.