By Michael Ko Seattle Times staff reporter The bigger, badder Max O\'Donoghue-McDonald feels no pain, never sweats after races and mows down rugged cross-country courses with ease, in time for dinner and homework. It might not be much of an exaggeration. O\'Donoghue-McDonald, who won the Class 3A state cross-country title as a lanky junior, has since packed 20 pounds of muscle on his 6-foot-3 frame, most of it in his core and legs. On Thursday, the Seattle Prep senior powered free from a tightly-packed field just after the two-mile marker at chilly, hilly Lower Woodland Park to win the Sea-King 3A District boys championship. His time of 15 minutes, 36 seconds, a week after he smashed the 3.1-mile course record in 15:22, also led Seattle Prep to the boys team title in the last tuneup before next week\'s state meet in Pasco. Seattle Prep sophomores Erik Berg and Charlie McDonald finished ninth and 10th.
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Max-imization plan a success
Oct 29, 2006