in Practice by coach mike on 29 Aug 2008
I’m setting here at work waiting for 7 am to get here. We had a decent week of practice. Two am runs, a good day of hills on Wednesday. Monday was a good day of 400 repeats and some good base miles for the whole week. Yesterday I’m not sure if the miles were that good for girls, or most of the girls, might of been junk miles. Its time to race, we have practiced enough without a race. The time has come to see where we are at and where we need to go from here. The season is long and the important meets are several weeks away. We need to keep moving toward getting better, we need to stick together. Right now I don’t feel we are team, a group banded together for a common cause, I just don’t have that feel of chemistry. Maybe some long bus trips will bring us together, oh boy can’t wait for those. What we need is a battle, to see what we are made of. Are we tough? Are we willing to push our self to the pain and then pass the pain? When the big dogs go, will we go with them? My gut tells me, we are one short, we are missing that one runner from being better than good, that one missing leak, that one piece of the puzzle, just one person!