Upcoming Week

This week we are practicing from 3:05 to 4:45.  The 2nd time trial went quite well as those of you who could make it saw. I've uploaded some photos (taken by Darrel Greenawalt), so let me know if you can't access them somehow. Blogger has changed its system for linking photos again.  

We have a race at McDowell this Saturday--check out the sheet on the invitational for more information.   

And here we go with school, again.  Please have your runners hydrating throughout the day as much as possible and have them eat a snack after school (prior to practice) to give them the energy they need for practice.  

Very excited!  

It was great to have Dakota with us Saturday, as well...quite the great surprise.  

Family Business

The Season Looks Bright

Our 2nd Time Trial is coming up tomorrow.  We will be wearing our uniforms to see how we look!  

Also, on a side note, I will snap a team picture at some point early in the season and give everyone a copy of that photo as their team photograph.  If you are interested in individual photos, I can recommend several local photographers, but we will not have individual photos this season, just like last season.  

Additionally, remember hoagie sales forms are due next Friday, September 1st. Please sell at least 10 so we can use this as our only fundraiser this season.  

Spirit Wear order forms are out as well.  You can also print a form from above for that, if interested. The deadline is September 5th for those to be turned in so we can get your order back asap.  

AND--OUR TEAM LOOKS GOOD.  WE ARE GETTING BETTER.  I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN THE GROWTH MINDSET...MEANING THAT IF EACH OF US GETS A BIT BETTER/FASTER, THEN THE TEAM WILL CLEARLY BE BETTER. 

#FAMILYBUSINESS

First Saturday Time Trial

Very positive signs from our first day of "racing." We have plenty of room for improvement, but we had a good day.

This coming week, we will have more of the same with a concluding Time Trial on Saturday.  

Family Business!

Time Trial #1

Time Trial 1 is tomorrow.  We will blow the whistle sharply at 9am.  Arrive by 8:30 at the latest to get your pre-race routine going.  We will be done after all finish.  

It's been a good, hard week. Tomorrow we show off!

Day 4-Long Easy

We ran for an hour straight today. It's always good to see the victory on the faces after a very long run. A good day.

Day 2

A good day again.  800s are hard.  The varsity boys ran 8 of these, the girls and jr. high boys did 6, and the jr. high girls 4.  Lots of water and breaks help, but it is just hard.  

We are trying to convince our bodies that "our new normal," that is a lot of running, is acceptable and okay. Our bodies can do much more than we think they can.  It just takes a bit of convincing.  

Good practice overall.

First Practice Impressions

We've got one in the books.  The runners ran a 10-minute pre-warm-up, followed by our stretch routine.  We then ran the course for our actual warm-up (varsity=3.1 miles; jr. high=2.4 miles).  We came back, had a break for five minutes, and followed that up with our CORE routine.  Next, we went to the track for our one mile time trial to get our goals for the rest of this week's interval workouts.  We ended with 8x20 second strides, and then 5x100 sprints.

Tough day, but all looked good!

Gabe set the bar with a 5:08 mile, Beka had a 6:15, Sam had a 6:00, and Paige hit 7:13 for our fastest time trials by gender and varsity/jr. high.  

Tomorrow we hit the 800m intervals as our speedwork.  


Impressions:  We have a great group of runners, a few new faces (always nice!), and did well.  We need recruits, though.  Ask your friends to come join the fun.  

FAMILY BUSINESS!             

Parent Meeting - Wed (8.16) at 6 at SES pavilion.

Bring back your 3 forms tomorrow - Rules sheet, transportation form (fill in XC because they gave me the wrong form), and the Student-Athletic Handbook (back page).