in Uncategorized by coach mike on 30 Sep 2009
I have been on “vacation” since last Thursday, 5 days off from work plus 2 days of a weekend. I don’t think of vacation unless you go somewhere, so it was a bit weird. Didn’t know what to do with myself. One day I went to the doctor and had some moles frozen, I’m going to have to go back, one of the moles didn’t fall off, so I guess I get to have the mole cut out. Another day I went to a 5 hour refresher course for my Food Service Sanitation Certificate. The other days I had cross country practice. So I’m back to the office in the AM hour. We had a meet last weekend at SIU-C, guess what it rain again, right before the race and then quit and the sun came out and made things like a steam bath. On top of that the course was a muddy mess. The kids are doing a good job, but they are not happy with their times, I keep telling them, the girls specially that most of the races they ran last year in high school were not 5K races. Its good they are not happy with things, just so they don’t get down on themselves too much. The guys are running the long distance, and they are stilling adjusting to it, plus we just do not have enough base miles. We have had a very good week of practice so far. Two good hard days, plus some good distance work out, well one so far, Thursday will be another good mileage day. I think we are close to turning the corner with our times, we are off this weekend and back at it next week at SIU-E-mud mountain! So boy, I’m sure it will rain or last time I was there it snowed!