On Saturday, Vikings athletes were in their second workout of the day.

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“I think you get out there and you work hard enough and it’s going to make sense,” Hofacre said. “Also Brad Taylor was coach when I was there and he would take us up Big C relays and we would go to Ketchikan and do a track clinic and he would just put in all this extra time before we actually got to meets. Kind of like what we are trying to do right here, is just give them a little bit more experience so that when we do go do those things they are ready for it and also having a great crew of kids, kind of like the program I came up from. They all want to do really well and so they are willing to use their free weekend to come up to Juneau and do that.”


“We don’t have an actual track or any super good facilities or equipment really,” defending Region V hurdles runner-up and state-placer junior Noah Pawuk said. “We don’t get as much experience. The only time we run on a track is the warmup before a meet. Getting this experience, feeling what it feels like to run with spikes on a track is really important because you can’t really get that experience in Petersburg when we just have a 200-meter gravel path and you just run it in your regular tennis shoes. So getting the experience of what it actually feels like to be a regular track is huge so you don’t get as shocked by it when you are actually running an actual race. We have a lot of incoming freshmen on this team, some that have not even ran in track before, so getting this experience is really country wise email marketing list important, especially as a team.”

Freshmen Lexi Tow and Cadence Flint were enjoying bonding as they sprinted in team 200s.

“It feels way better than our one at home,” Tow said. “And it feels really nice to just get out here and run on it. It’s just very different than what we have and it has been fun to run it with our team. It’s pretty big compared to ours. Ours is…really short actually.”

Flint was part of Petersburg’s girls state cross-country championship team this season.

“It is a really good learning opportunity to be able to use a real jump pit,” Flint said. “And, like, hurdles and to be able to practice going around the curves and sprinting the straight-a-ways. It’s a really great experience.”

Defending Region V discus champion senior Erik Thynes was crafting his throws deep down the TMMS field.