Cross Country Club Making Strides

Despite an incoming Nor’easter and an unrelenting hill, three members of the MassBay Cross Country Club captured personal bests at the Wayland XC Invitational on Sunday, October 12th.

 

First-year student and accomplished marathoner, Aaron Smith, led the MassBay contingent through the rain with a time of 22:40. He was followed by team captain, Gastevens Balan, who ran a very strategic race to knock close to a minute off his last 5K performance. With a ferocious kick, Gastevens finished close behind Smith in a time of 23:05. Rounding out the pack was a newcomer to the sport, Aaron Oliver Hidalgo, who ran a gutsy performance that found him not far off the lead runners for the first part of the race. With a final sprint to the finish line in 23:19, Hidalgo proved he will be ready for MassBay's next 5K challenge, the Mayor's Cup in Boston, on October 26th.