Sage Creek High cross country coach Jason Jacobson will cross a line few runners ever reach on Sunday, Nov. 8: 100,000 lifetime miles.
Jacobson plans to hit the mark at the Silver Strand Half Marathon in Coronado, according to a Sage Creek High announcement posted Oct. 26. He has logged every run since 1987, and the school said he holds a 17-year consecutive running streak.
One hundred thousand miles is roughly four trips around the Earth's equator.
The milestone arrives during a banner fall for Jacobson's program. His Bobcats boys and girls teams both won their sweepstakes races at the Mt. SAC Cross Country Invitational on Friday, Oct. 23, as first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Running against top Division 3, 4 and 5 teams from across the state, Sage Creek was the only boys team to score fewer than 100 points, finishing with 90 to West Torrance's 113.
Grant Beasley grabbed third overall in 15 minutes, 7.2 seconds. Freshman Daniel Radtke finished sixth in 15:18.9, a time Jacobson told the Union-Tribune set an all-time freshman record at the meet. On the girls side, Isabel Gladden led the Bobcats with a fourth-place finish in 17:50.90, and Sage Creek outscored Cathedral Catholic 63-100.
"I expected the girls to win, but I didn't think the boys would win the whole thing," Jacobson told the Union-Tribune after the meet.
Jacobson is in his sixth year leading the Sage Creek program, according to the school's coaching staff page. He serves as head coach for both the boys and girls cross country teams. Before arriving at Sage Creek, he coached cross country for more than 20 years in California and Oregon. His teams have won multiple league and section titles, and he has guided athletes or teams to the CIF State Cross Country Meet in 20 different seasons, including eight consecutive team appearances in Division IV and a Division IV boys state championship in 2010.
He has also completed 28 marathons.
The Silver Strand Veterans Day Half Marathon starts at Sunset Park in Coronado and finishes at Silver Strand State Beach. The event also offers a 10-miler, 12K and 5K.
