"We got out too slow, and we couldn't really recover," said captain Scott Muoio. "In this big of a field it's hard to catch up when you fall back."
"Our last race at Franklin Park was small, but today we had over 200 guys on line," said sophomore David Martin. "I spent the first two miles throwing elbows, and I had to hurdle a guy who got knocked down.
"It's more mentally taxing--you can't start thinking about your race until after the first two miles."
As a team, the men ran about 20 seconds slower than they had anticipated.
"A couple of us had good races," Muoio said. "The poor times can be chocked up to conditions."
"We are forced to learn from this race," Haggerty said. "It was by far our biggest race this year, and it could have been better, but it also could have been worse."