Steven's Point

Here is a recap of the first couple days of the Wisconsin running camp from Jack Husmann.

Sunday July 11-Tuesday July 13

Wisconsin

This week me, Justin Potter, the Callahans, Jimmy Reed, Collin Sullivan, Collin Vieth, Cleaver, and Seamus went to the Stevens Point Running Camp in Wisconsin with Coach Traughber and Coach Leeman. We all left DeSmet at 6 a.m. on Sunday (we would have left earlier but Justin decided to sleep in).

The camp started with a mile time trial and everyone from DeSmet ran great time showing that the summer training is paying off. The next morning we all woke up early and went on an easy run of about 4 miles with our groups. Then the Stevens Point cross country coach, Coach Witt, talked to everyone about summer training and after that we got ready for our afternoon workout. It was 20 minutes of tempos on the track. My group was going at 6:12 pace and everyone from DeSmet did great.

On Monday we also challenged the counselors to a game of wiffleball. It was everyone from DeSmet and a guy at the camp who we nicknamed Super Jimmy. It was a 5 inning game and very close. Cleavers pitching and some great defense is what kept us in the game. In the bottom of the fifth we were down by one run with two outs and Super Jimmy hit a walk off home run to win the game.

Quote/Joke of the day-"It doesn't matter guys because we've already lost". Collin Sullivan said this literally one second before Super Jimmy hit the home run that won the game.


Dream Mile

On Tuesday we did another short easy run in the morning followed by another afternoon workout. Todays workout was different than anything we had ever done before. It was called the Dream Mile. For the workout we took our mile pr and added around 20 seconds to it and tried to run a mile in that time. We could divide the mile however we wanted and would get 6 minutes of rest to split up . My group was aiming for a 4:32 mile. We ran a 200, 300, 400, 500, and another 200 at that pace with around a minute rest between each. It was a great way to finish the day, and my group ran exactly 4:32.

Quote of the Day- "If it was easy we would stand around and call it football". Coach Witt talking about cross country.

Joke of the Day- Coach Witt was showing a weird way that one of the girls on his team used to run and Michael whispered to us "Thats the Stack Shuffle".