It's been a great winter so far. We've been outside on the track doing most of our training. Obviously, you can run a lot faster and harder in 50-degree weather than 20-degree weather.

It's not our best time of the year, but it's pretty close. We ran a 4:02.85 at Yale. That was a more competitive race, but this is a pretty good time.

It was the leadoff leg so she didn't get a running start, so it's pretty accurate.

You're only allowed to do two events each, so we targeted this race and the 4x400. We felt we could run a time similar to two years ago and it just worked out that they ran very well.

Samantha's versatility is second to none. We're very lucky to have her on our team.

Sam took it out first as she normally does. The other girl caught her with about 50 meters to go and passed her. She (Thomas) maintained that margin until the end.

Emily has looked very good for us early in the season.

We felt the best competition was going to be in the 600 because the girl from Marshfield ran a 1:33 last week and we wanted the best race we could get for her.

This was just an average meet. There was nothing sensational. Hopefully, it'll be a wake-up call and our girls will get the picture. If we plan to win a fifth straight state title, these times will have to come down.

That was at the State Meet and we just told her to do what she had to do to win the race. She had run a 1:34 during her 1,000 last week so we knew she could go under that. This was just a chance to actually do it.