 Hello and welcome to the David Ann Show presented by Buffalo Wildings. I'm Greg Royce showed by Stevenson Cross Country Head Coach David Ann. Coach, it's been a busy last few weeks since we last chatted. Let's go back to weeks first chat about the Salisbury meet. Very successful. You know, set some records and, you know, pretty exciting meet overall. Yeah. I mean, first, the woman winning the meet was really exciting because there was a bunch of Division II schools there. Yeah. And then Emily winning the meet overall by 30 seconds was pretty impressive. Yeah. And then on the men's side, I mean, Pat ran a huge course record. Yeah. I mean, he went 24-15 and the old course record was 24-52. Yeah. So, but the men finished third. Yeah. But again, we're making progress to where we need to be. Yeah. And then your final tune up before the match in which next week went to the Rowan meet which featured, you know, I don't know. I rode the release with so many ranked teams, you know, on both sides. And, you know, Pat was able to go on the men's side again and run another big number and, you know, then Emily finished 11th. So, and the women finished 10th overall being a couple ranked teams. So, that'd be exciting on Saturday. Yeah. So, I mean, on the women's side, we were hoping to do a little bit better because there was a lot of ranked teams from the region and out of region as well. But, I mean, it was still a good experience. Emily ran well again and they all know what they need to do. Yeah. And, you know, the men's side, I mean, it was Pat's first real test of the season. And, I mean, it went well. I told him he couldn't lead until four miles. And, I mean, he closed the last, last part of the race from your four mile mark to the finish in 424. Yeah. So, it was impressive. Yeah. Certainly, you know, impressive. And certainly, you know, you know, we've talked about, you know, since he's got a shot, he's got a shot. So, it was impressive. Yeah. Certainly, you know, impressive. And certainly, you know, you know, we've talked about, you know, he's got a shot to do some really special things here as we get towards the home stretch this season. Yeah. It's really exciting. And we're trying to go day by day and just enjoy the experience. But I do really believe he has a shot at winning the national title. Yeah. And then, you know, just looking at this week's regional rankings, you know, obviously, people noticed what both the men and women did is both teams moved up this past week. The women, I believe, moved up to seventh. I think the men moved up this far as well. Yeah. I mean, we're both, this is the first time we've ever had both in the top 10 last week and this week. And the women keep moving up. So people are starting to notice. Yeah. And again, I mean, we all just have to run well on the next two weeks. Right. Yeah, absolutely. And obviously, in November 2nd, you go over to go out to hood for the conference championship. And kind of what's your preparation for that, you know, kind of the weekly race? How do you go through that and get ready to compete? Yeah. So the way we do it this week is pretty tough. Yeah. It's going to be harder weeks, but we still get the volume and the intensity up a little bit. Yeah. And then next week we'll back down. And we'll just talk a lot about race plan. And it's a smaller meet, the conference meet. Right. But I mean, both of them have goals of potentially winning. So we got to figure out who's going to match up with who from the other teams. And I think, I think they both have a really good shot. Yeah. And then obviously two weeks after that, see our regional meet and, you know, just another chance to go out and, you know, potentially, as we talked about, do, you know, maybe qualifies at that large or have individuals qualify. Yeah. So I mean, I mean, we really think Pat's going to make it and then potentially Emily and maybe some other individuals and potentially the women's team. So yeah, we never know. Right. That's why you run the races, right? Yeah. All right. Well coach, wish you the best of luck. And, you know, we'll chat again next month. And thank you for your talk. Thank you. All right. For David Dan, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the David Dan Show.