This week kicked off the first week of track practice. We started the week in the cafeteria with a goals meeting that included repeating this year at Conference, repeating the All Catholic meet, and trophy-ing for the first time ever at State. Coach Williams and Russo talked about how awesome are team could be this year if we compete and work hard. Hopefully all of our hard work will makes these goals a reality.
On Thursday the long distance guys competed in the first mile time trial of the year. Austin set the tone early by running a 4:42 mile and proving that all of his hard work during the winter was working. Team Junior turned out not to be deficient after all while posting some big PR's across the board. Breaking 5:00 in the mile for the first time ever were Sullivan, Glenn, MC, and Plassmeyer. Good work boys! Afterwards we took a walk around the school and then came back to run three miles at tempo pace. Yes, I'm still sore if you were wondering.
Today was our first long run of the year and we decided to run seven loops at Malcolm Terrace Park. Terrace is one of our favorite places to run and I have a lot of fond memories playing tag and other shenanigans at that park. Anyway, Matt showed up to practice sick today and by the end of practice today his face was looking paler than usual, which is quite pale. Poor Matt.
Other important stuff:
1). Tom will be creating an NCAA tournament game open to all De Smet runners and De Smet alumni. I will post a link to the game on the blog when he makes it. This will be the third year of the tournament with past winners Andrew O'Connor (2010) and myself (2011).
2.) After practice on Thursday Matt and I helped Nick set up his classroom for the El Camino retreat in Coach Russo's room. We built a pretty awesome tent...just thought you should know.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
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