Track Season 2012

I posted somewhere that we'd practice Monday through Thursday, with Friday off,  throughout the winter. Andrew, who I assume represents the team, asked that we keep the normal schedule with Wednesday off. Therefore we'll abide by the normal schedule of practicing Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Saturday and Sunday's practices will be coordinated as it approaches.

Yesterday (Monday, 12/5) was our first "semi-formal" practice.

The weather was as bad as I have ever seen it -- ~7 inches of snow and temps in the 20s, witha stiff wind blowing out of the north.

A sparse turnout.

Andrew, Keven, Aidan and Dom ran Green Mt. while Grace, Rachel and Gab ran DwyHammer.

I commented that looking at the teams at Nike Nationals, if we wanted to, then we too could be there. The only difference between the teams that competed at Nike Nationals and ours were that they trained harder. I then said, it would be impossible to train that hard, since people would "break." Someone commented that the difference might be that we are a small school. If that was true, then does that mean an athlete coming from a small school can never be as good as somebody coming from a large school?

All should watch these two videos (copied off of Flotrack):

My good friend, Paul Limmer, speaks on how to build a national championship team. And then he continues along the same vain, but perhaps a little more specific on the girls side.

What do you think?

Today... another cold day to run.

Post-Practice -- Tuesday
Those showing were Keven, Andrew and Dom.

I propose to have practices until the "official" start of practice, on Monday -- Thursday.

Look forward to a great start of the season.

4:45
All return.