June 15th through to the 22nd

Nike Outdoor Nationals

This is the weekend (or the week for me) when I'm in North Carolina working at the NON. I arrived Sunday evening and got together with old colleagues (I taught in at a school in Raleigh for 12 years prior to coming to Flag), then on Monday loaded a large truck with equipment and drove to Greensboro (named after the great Revolutionary war hero, Nathaniel Greene). Today we loaded into the truck 454 boxes filled with backpacks that will given to every athlete who runs at NON.

To the point...
Therefore, I'm not in town and cannot schedule practices for this week until I return. As I mention at one of our practices, you need to keep running, practicing on your own! Every day you don't practice, you lose two. So keep running.

On to tomorrow...
I'll try to update this and keep you abreast of what goes on at NON. The best runners in the nation are here, and I wish you too were here. I've taken only runner one runner to this meet -- Tolan Thorton -- and he pr'ed by less than 30 seconds in the 2 mile (yea, they run a mile and two mile, instead of the crappy 1600 and 3200!). Tolan ran 9:09, running 4:35 and then running the next mile in 4:34 (we call that "negative splits), and winning the "slow heat."

See you tomorrow!