Friday, September 24, 2010
3-Lakes Race and upcoming races
Wow!! In my 11 years of coaching, I have never seen so much rain at a race. I watched as the race course slowly sank underwater. I was glad that 3-Lakes continued with the race because most organizers would have canceled. Even though there was some apprehension by our runners, they really did have a lot of fun. We will have some great memories from this race.
I am putting info up for the next two races. We have our good luck charm from last year. Mr. Mc Craw gave us a 4 leave clover.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Smiley Invitational
Varsity Girls
Boys start
JV Girls Start-345 girls
Smiley was a very good race for both the boys and girls teams. We did about where I expected in both Division 2 and 3. What was really amazing is that we were competitive with some of our top runners battling injury. I thought the JV girls race was the most interesting because of the sheer number of runners in one race. Girls just kept coming and coming in that race. Of course we had Nate crashing at the finish of the race of the boys varsity race, and getting some pretty nasty road rash.
Nate falling
For the next few weeks we are going to races that are not top on our calendar. This last week we saw some great competition and we have done very well. 1st at SPASH was awesome because we never won as a team by beating Edgar, 2nd at DC Everest is respectable losing to Edgar and 3rd at Smiley once again Edgar being the top team. At the end of October is obviously where our focus will be. We are going to use some of the races as speed workouts and may keep a few people out to heal them up. It is time to do some real good quality workouts to improve our fitness coming into the second part of the season so we peak at the right time.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)