Saturday, August 21, 2010

Week of Monday, August 23rd

50% is great if that is your pay raise.
50% is bad if its your test score.
50% is great if that is a sale on a car or house.
50% is bad if its the number that comes to practice...

That's exactly what we had today. Technically we were one person over half - we had 27 out of 52 show up for today's long run. I understand that there are extraordinary circumstances that prevent us from making practice occasionally, but not HALF of us. Teams with a winning culture - a culture with a desire to improve - do better than 50%. I know practice was far away today, but we have the nation's most used National Park - we'd be foolish not to go there, especially for the soft surface of a long run.

This is it - this is the week of the first meet and classes. Its time to buckle down and prove whether we are true believers in a new culture or not.

Monday, Aug 23 - Memorial Field 1600 LT then repeat 400s BRING SPIKES! 3:30-5:30
Tuesday, Aug 24 - SJA - Hill workout film review (rm 331)then core, regular run, lift. 1:40-3:30
Wednesday, Aug 25 - Mastick cut-down run 3:30-5:20
Thursday, Aug 26 - SJA - circuit day
Friday, Aug 27 - SJA - pre-meet meeting (rm 331) then pre-meet run. We are NOT tapering for this meet, especially group 4. Plan on going to Mastick for easy mileage. 3:30-5:15 (group 4 later). First pre-meet dinner at Bresnahan's. More info to come!
Saturday, Aug 28 - GO TIME! Early Bird Invite at Kent State Geauga Campus. Bus leaves 7:15 - All runners run in same race at 10am! We will need some parents to take their daughters to the meet due to team being too big.
Sunday - no organized SJA CC activities. Cross train, recover, rejoice in great first meet.

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