in Kaskaskia College Cross Country by coach mike on 28 Oct 2011
Its 12:51 am. Can’t sleep. Been a whirl wind of excitement. First was the big cross country meet. The one we have been talking about. Still not sure everybody got what was going on. Just funny how some are focused and some have no idea. Oh well. Can’t control that unless I want to be a real jerk. Which I don’t, I will just keep my evil twin in check, not worth an appearance from Mr Hyde or is it Mr Rogers? Anyway I was disappointed in the out come of the races, there I said it. “Disappointed” Not in the effort of most, I would have to say in some, and I would hope there would be some disappointed as well, because if you are any kind of athlete, you should care how well you perform, otherwise you are just ……………….not an athlete. Caring is important. Anyway I was disappointed for the most part for you. Not at you. For you. Its my job, our job as coaches to have you ready, have you prepare. I not sure we did. Actually we didn’t. But that is the hindsight thing. Danville was ready, they ran their best race as a team of their season. Give them credit. Lincoln has those two top runners, going 1 and 2, was tough for us to do much with that. But Danville was very good today. What I need to remember is this is just our 3rd season and we are so much better, than we have been, we have made big improvements in several areas, but we still have a lot of improvement to make. The Blue Angels as a team has made big strides and the base is there to get even better. We had two ladies make All Region and just missed having three. The Blue Devils, I believe this is where we have dropped the ball. Josh had been sick all week and it showed, the flu will knock you back. We have had some other injuries that we are just know showing some improvement from. The only probably is you can only do so much, can’t build up the base miles down. I would just like to see some times drop at the Nationals and I know, we are going to hear about the higher altitude and how we will be slow because of that, ok we can play that game, we can give you those seconds, but the true cold facts is this time of the year you should be at your fastest. If we don’t have all six of you guys under 30 minutes, then we ………………………well………we need to be there, no reason, no excuses. On the women side, I except at less three of you under 21 minutes. If we can’t get there at the Nationals, then we need to rethink what we are doing for the future. We have until the 12th of November, we will be loosing day light, it is going to get colder, but right now our season is still going on. So lets show some personal pride and I know we will and lets finish this out like true athletes. Ok its now 1:19 and I have to be up in 5 hours, so I’m going to try to go to sleep. Oh by the way the Cardinals won! Also I’m not totally sure what I just typed so I might need to edit it later!!!!! Please don’t take any of this wrong, I love everyone of you and I know you gave your best efforts, I’m just want the best for you and I could see on some of your faces disappointment, so that just makes me want to work harder for you!
