 Hello, welcome to the Dave Redan show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce here with Stevenson Cross Country head coach Dave Redan. Coach, we didn't catch up with you last week because you were traveling back from California. Talk a little bit about how that meet went for you guys out in California and the whole experience of that, you know, going to be out there for a few days. Yeah, so it was great. It was a great experience. It was great for them to get out of region and race some of the top teams from the West region. Claremont Mudge Scripts was there, Pomona-Pitzer, Occidental. Those are some of the top schools on the West Coast. So it was great to get out and see how we stacked up against them. And just the whole trip was just a great experience. I mean, they all enjoyed themselves. So that was one of the main points of the whole trip. Absolutely. And then, particularly on the men's side, you know, finishing fourth against some of those teams in nationally. I think you opened a couple of eyes at different parts of the country, you know, at the Stevenson Cross Country. It was a program to be respected and reckoned with. Yeah, and I was hoping to do a little bit better on the men's side, but I mean, it's tough. I mean, we traveled all the way out to the West Coast, and it's always hard for everybody to put together their best race on that day. And we had one of our runners, Brett Olin, lost his shoe at the start line. I mean, anything can happen. Yeah. Now, Chiff Gheorgi, as a team you didn't race last week, but you were active. You ran the Baltimore Marathon this past Saturday. Finish second with no meat. You were able to, you know, some of your team was able to cheer you on. And just talk a little bit about your experience in the marathon this year, particularly, you know, the new finish line with finishing downtown as opposed to in the parking lot of Cameron Yards. Yeah, I mean, it was a wonderful experience. It was great to have the athletes down there. They were all over the place. So it was funny at the end, like over that last mile, they were yelling some of the stuff that I yell to them at the end of races, but I could tell they almost felt bad because of how bad I was hurting at that point. And then just finishing downtown instead of between Ravens Stadium and Cameron Yards, I think was really great. I mean, to finish and look around and see skyscrapers in the harbor, I feel like it's a good thing for the future. Yeah, it makes it feel a little bit more like you're in the city as opposed to, you know, just in a parking lot. Well, obviously, Cameron Yards and Edmonton Bank Stadium are great. You know, it's not as much of a city feel as probably finishing it. Yeah, it felt like a normal big city marathon, which I think is what they're trying to go for. Yeah. Now, this week, what we've kind of been talking about all year, MAC Championships, preseason poll came out, or not preseason poll, but the pre-championship poll came out. The men are picked second behind Messiah, got a couple first place votes, and the women are picked eighth. So I kind of followed my expectations. I was hoping to do a little bit better on both sides. Yeah, so the woman finished eighth last year. So our goal was to improve on that. We did not run Kelly last year because she redshirted because of injury. So I think we can improve on that. But again, I mean, everybody has to run well on that day. But I feel like the women are top five or six team this year. And then the men, I mean, since last year, they've been talking about how they really want to put it together and win. And it's going to be close. I mean, Messiah is going to be tough. DeSales always puts together a good race, Mr. Cordia. But I think it's going to come down to us and Messiah. And I mean, everybody has to run their best on that day. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously, you know, one day, you know, one race, anything can happen. You know, you've seen Messiah a couple of times. So you kind of know a little bit about them, but they know a little bit about you as well. Yeah, definitely. And I mean, I'm confident in our training and our guys are too. I mean, the whole season has been geared up for the next three weeks. So I think we're in a good place. All right, coach. Well, we should best of luck at Mac championships on Saturday. We'll talk to you next week for David Dan. This is Greg Royce. This has been the David Dan Show.