in Uncategorized by coach mike on 20 Sep 2009
Big meet. Lots of good teams there and teams with big numbers. Fun to watch and be a part of. Its always hard to tell how your team is doing because there is so many runners. But after the dust had cleared, we did ok. The girls times were not as good as they had ran some races in high school, but we need to remember-1st the course was a full 5K, while most HS courses are from 2.9 to 3 miles. 2nd-though the course looked easy to run, it wasn’t, lots of ups and downs add time to your time-3rd just like driving your car, when there’s lots of traffic we seem to drive slower (most people anyway, ok most people drive faster, I drive slower!) Our times will get better, if we keep working, that will be the big thing-we have to keep working. Some of us have not started to work hard yet, so we need to get that going also. On the men side, that was their first 8K race, we weren’t sure how to attack the race, I think we probably learned a lot there. I think some of us went out to fast. The start was such a big start, with so many runners, but we can’t do things that we are not able to do yet. I watched the Northern Illinois team and the U of I team and they went out as a group and stayed together for the first part of the race, I know we can’t do that yet, but we can learn from it. As I told the guys a pack of wolves is meaner and tougher than a single wolf. Somehow we need to work it together for awhile and then break off, but that means the weakest have to become stronger and not the stronger weaker! Our goals are to-stay healthy, continue to work, and to improve as our season goes on so we are running our best times at the end of the season. One last and I use the the word last, note, we were not last in either race as teams, or individuals!