Back to Blogging

I'd like to start by formally apologizing to all of the followers and readers of the Milk Table. Between pre-break crunch time and the break itself, blogging became difficult. With the business of this time, the blog was not updated for many days and everyone was restless. Well, I’m back and I’m sorry about the wait. The Milk Table returns with a new spirit and vigor. The posts will be more consistent, so as always enjoy and leave some comments.

There were a couple of noteworthy performances during the Blog’s downtime. At the Webster Groves Varsity Invitational meet on the Wednesday of Spring Break, Potter and Abernathy took gold in the 800 and 3200 respectively. It is no surprise that victory came from these two runners as they each got a shoot out earlier in the week in the Suburban Journal’s track preview. Potter ran a smart race in a crowded field (he got bumped and made a move in lane 5) got earn his second career first place finish. Abernathy also ran a smart race going out under control and using the 8 laps to move up in the field. He made his move on 5th place cross county finisher, Krumrey, with about 150 to go and beat him by 6 seconds for Abernathy first ever first place finish. Nice work job guys and the team expects for good things to come from these two Junior runners.


Today: The freshmen and Sophomores had an easy run and hand-off practice as they were gearing up for the Northwest House Springs Relays. Good Luck tomorrow boys; can’t wait to hear how it goes. The rest of the guys had a nice easy run on Mosley Road. The dominating topic today was LEGOs. We talked about everything LEGO: sets, games, store, and magazine. Mentioned tons of different sets, some recent, some old school: Pirates, Indians, Harry Potter, Star Wars, underground, underwater, outer space, etc. Let’s hear your favorite below. Followed this up with core, weights, and stretching. And finished things off, as always, with a nice carton of Chocolate Milk.

We have a champion! OC takes home the first ever team bracket challenge championship. He edged out Potter by just two points. He picked 43 of 63 games correct and added 11 bonus points for a total score of 112. Some notable performances include coach, who finished a solid 4th, and Michael Callahan, who had the most bonus points with 23.

Quote of the Day: “Rubble!”- the voice from the LEGO Rock Raiders computer game as impersonated by Boyle during the LEGO discussion on the run. If you think that’s a random quote, you obviously didn’t read the beginning of this post.

Joke of the Day: I told this on the run today and here is some background. Over the weekend I hear about a college student studying to become a doctor. His last name was Pepper. So… A Doctor greets someone new at his office, “Hi, I’m Dr. Pepper.” That person would then responds in a very sarcastic voice, “Yeah… And I’m Mr. Pibb.”

Best Dressed: OC. Besides the day after winning the team’s bracket challenge, he secured another victory, this time with a very impressive look. As I assume everyone knows, Duke won the Nation Championship last night and OC took full advantage of this. He got out the blue J.J. Redick jersey and even had some nice shorts to compliment it. What might have been the best part of this was that he even out shined the Duke-crazy Potter in the all-out nature of his appearance.