Coach Mikes Blog

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 31 Aug 2010

Been locked out of the site for a few days. I hate computers! We have a new coach for the women team. Shannon is the new coach! Things are going well. Dates to remember-This Thursday dinner at 5:30 at the school.
First meet Saturday-bus leaves at 6:30am. We will eat on the way home at Dairy King in Breese. September 28th KC cross country will be hosting a grade school meet at the campus-IT IS MANDATORY FOR YOU TO BE THERE-SO IF YOU HAVE A JOB YOU NEED TO ASK OFF FOR THE DAY. IF YOU HAVE CLASS-GO TO CLASS. Another date is October 2nd-we will be helping with a 5k run in the park. Or maybe we will be running in it! Mark that date. The ban has been listed!  The weather should be good on Saturday.

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 26 Aug 2010

The KCSA will again host the Fall Welcome Back Dinner for all student athletes on Thursday, September 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Student Center. Please let me know how many from your team including coaches will be attending. R.S.V.P deadline is Friday, August 27th. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on the 2nd of September.

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 25 Aug 2010

How much better the world would be if life was simpler.

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 24 Aug 2010

Practice, work, practice, work. Another week and half a meet. I often hear, coach that’s boring, lets do something else. I don’t want to run that way its boring. Lets do something different. Larry Bird use to shot 500 shots a day after practice. That had to be boring but that’s how he got better. This is cross country-you get better by running. You get better by running fast. You get better by running mile repeats. You get better by running hills. You get better by running distance, at a fast pace. That’s it is it plain and simple. Run and run faster.

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 18 Aug 2010

Good hill workout today. Girls as a group had great workout. Boys were probably a c+ as a group. Did have some A’s in the group-but throw in some lower grades? Will maybe they were a B- as group. Girls get a A-. Hope to have a good workout on Thursday-going on a long run.

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 16 Aug 2010

Had a good practice today. Decided Mondays are going to be  tough practice day. Ran 1 mile repeats. The men ran 7, well 4 of them ran 7. Jones and Voss looked strong. Goff and Nix had good work out and Neff was good but sit out one. Cameron did a good job but the others struggled. The women ran 4. Pleased with the efforts and got an idea of what they could do. Mollie and Megan ran in the front of each one of the repeats but the other 4 were not too far behind. I was glad to get a good workout in. Hope to have a good week.

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 08 Aug 2010

Practice Monday. Meet in the park at 4:30.
Tuesday is picture day,so meet at the school and bring uniforms. Time is 4:30.

in Uncategorized by coach mike on 05 Aug 2010

It started! Another year. Year 18 of coaching cross xc. Seems like yesterday when, there I was, 60 graders and me. Now 18 years later, me and college kids. And guess what? Its hot, been real hot. The thermometer has hit 100 and the heat index over 110! I’m excited, the girls team is much improved. We should be stronger 1 through 5 and our number six is going to improve as the year goes on. I can see a lot of changes during the year with Mollie, Shannon, Megan, Toni and Chelsea changing places through the season and little Janelle will just keep getting better. The men team will be a lot better. Last year we had no team balance. We should be bunched a lot closer this year. I can see 3 to 5 guys under 30 minutes. Voss has looked very strong so far. And Dustin, Nix and Goff makes us sooooooooo much better.  And we still have not seen Jones yet. We still probably don’t have a true front runner, but we should have a good pack. Only time will tell. Come November the truth will come to the front.