6 posts tagged “coaching”
OK...I'll be at 100 miles for the second straight week. I'm tired, my legs hurt, I am ALWAYS hungry, and I think my boss thinks that I'm on drugs, but 3 more days. No interesting workouts this week. Some hill stuff and some long runs with pick ups.
HOWEVER...next week I taper. The 22nd is the big relay race. I promise to get better pictures. I always say "this time I'm going to get good pictures" then I never actually do...but this time for sure.
The cross country team looks great. One of our top girls (and Jr. USATF All American) is growing (2 inches in the last 6 months) and she is really struggling right now. She isn't running well (relative term) and she's having a lot of pain in the upper shins (the Osgood Slaughter area for those who know what that means). We've been keeping her om grass and limiting her miles (which she hates because she's losing ground on the other top runners) but ti's a process and we really don't want her to get hurt.
Until I taper...that's about all there is, sorry.
Long time no post. Last Saturday I ran the Run With The Foxes half marathon (trail). We are slowly becoming the Seatle of the midwest here, it's rained about everyday this spring. So a trail run that has 10-12 stream crosses and is all dirt trails becomes...well, we had fun lets just say that.
Tuesday night was the girls regional in track and our distance girls had another strong meet. We took 1-2 in the 3200 claiming 2 of the 3 state qualifing spots (11:24/11:40) State finals are next friday and both girls are hoping to run PR's to end the year. For Amy that means beating her PR of 10:52 and viaing for the State title. I'm nervous already. The boys 4 x 800 made it to State with 2 freshman leading the way. Our top 3200 boy ran 9:24 but got smoked by the leader Witt who ran 9:11. Zack got second and is a favorite to make all state. Summer training has begun. I'm back up to the 70 mile mark so I'll keep you posted on the workouts and the races. Happy memorial day weekend everyone.
Never say that. We survived the Semi-State and made the state finals... As I stated before we were running without our #3 runner. Ok bad news for the Semi-State but hey that's no big deal, Right? How about 50 meters into the race our #1 runner (18:46 PR) gets tripped. Our number 2 runner falls over her and the rest of the team has to come to a complete stop behind them. Amy went down so hard it ripped her number right off the front of her jersey. The race did not have a recall starter so they didn't call it back. At the 400 meter mark we held 143-150 (out of 152 runners). Amy got up and came all the way back to finish 10th (she got up to 3rd but was to tired to hold it). Our 3-4-5 runner ran the races of their live and really saved the day. They came back to finish 36-41-47. As a coach seeing that happen at the Semi-State after everything these girls have worked for, it was heartbreaking to think they might not be running this week. In the end we got 5th and we were only 29 points out of 3rd (which is where we predicted to finish). That behind us I want your help. Saturday is the State finals (ironically we host the state finals) and the race is at 1:00. We have a team breakfast and then watch a inspirational movie before taking the bus to the race (the bus is only because it's easier in the crowd, the course is not at the high school). So I'm asking for movie suggestions. Remember that these are high school kids and we try to keep it PG (Without Limits is not PG, we've been through that before). With that limitation let me know what you think.
I keep waiting for things to slow down. Hopefully that will happen after next week. Tomorrow is the Semi-State here in Indiana and we are looking to make another trip to the state finals. The girls are finally tapering this week, but we are likely going to be short a runner for tomorrows race. We are losing a 20:05 (5K) girl for this weekend but it is in hopes that she will be able to return to the line up for next week. With 8 girls that can break 21:00 we are still capable of getting out and it's really not worth risking a serious injury for. So our hopes have to be that the taper works and the whole team runs well. Hope everyone is enjoying the fall weather. I'll be getting back to doing some racing of my own in a couple weeks (The workouts are going well) so I'll keep you posted.
Are you kidding...I think I missed summer. Well it's still 90 here but I can't believe it's October. Let me catch you up. Last week was the week from hell...the hard drive on lap top went out and I still can't find my keys so we'll just leave it at that. Wednesday night was the Conference meet for the team I help with. The girls finished 3rd as a team (behind the #3 and #4 ranked teams in the state). We were just 10 points out of 2nd and we really felt like they are beatable. We had 2 girls make the All MIC team and our top freshman just missed being All Conference. I'm back training hard again (I've had some knee soarness since the big relay over a month ago). I had been running but I had been keeping it limited, so Monday's 1000 meter repeats was a shock to the system after over a month with nothing fast. Enjoy the fall everyone and enjoy the nice days before they're gone.
The Culver Acadmey Invite was yesterday. WOW, what a meet. The Campus is amazing. It's a private school in Northern Indiana that sets on a lake. It makes most college campuses look bad. Anyway in the girls race 4 or the top 6 teams in the Midwest (2 from Indiana, 2 traveled in for the race). Also in the Indiana rankings the #1-2-3-4-6-8-12-1516-18 and then us at 25th ranked teams in the state were there. (To go with the 4-5 teams that made the trip from the states in the midwest) We had a great day in a lot of ways, but our #3 struggled and ended up #7 and that was the difference between 8th and 12th. Our #1 is still moving in the right direction (former 10:56 3200m runner who has had a lot of problems) she ran 19:13 (we run 5K in Indiana). Our number 2 and 3 ran 19:41 and 20:10. (Katie should have been right around 20:00 but with her struggling we had #4 & 5 finishers in 21:03 and 21:10. It was a good day though with out #8 and 9 runners (in the open race) coming up with finishes under 22:03. Jordan got cleared and will be back racing again next weekend which gives us another sub-21:00 runner in our varisty. The race was amazing 18:03 won the girls race but 14:47 won the boys race. It was an amzing race on the boys side, 3 guys went out together. First was the 14:47, second was 14:56 and the other guy died and finished 15:38 (for 5th). Its great to see the young tallent in the US thats coming. Enjoy the fall everyone.
