Circles

Today's meet (again at Carthage) was the State Private Schools Championships, but we didn't really treat it like a serious competition. The distance runners did another one of Russ's "95%" workouts while the sprinters and throwers got some more practice in their events. The running events started off with the distance medley relay, which consisted of Jade, Kayla, Anna, and Katie H for the women and Fife, Sarabia, Ben, and Dave on the men's side. Ash and I took splits, which made me feel good because I had a contributing role in the meet. Later Guppy dominated the mile once again and numerous people teamed up in the 800. Danny got his first college track "race" under the belt with what he described as a pretty easy cruise, and Dave ran what he described as the most mileage he's done since summer.

Meanwhile, Jon got to run a few miles outside thanks to a special tape job by Russ, and I went on the bike for an hour-long workout. Afterwards I joined a few buddies to cheer on our teammates, until I eventually got bored and started taking random photos that had little if anything to do with the actual competition. I also shot some video footage of Ash getting "Spidertech" tape stuck all over his hamstring. He went on to destroy the field in heat 2 of the 3000 with a 9:06. He may have actually had the winning time overall, I'm not sure-not bad for less than a full effort. A stop at Qdoba/Noodles for dinner and some joke-telling on the busride home wrapped up yet another Saturday in the world of track and field.

Next week we go to UW Madison for the Badger Classic. The distance squad is being entered in the 1000 for our first real race of the season. With another day of cross training tomorrow, hopefully I'll be able to get into regular training and join Twiet as he comes back to school for his first college track meet. I've got karma in the 1000 too-it was the only race I placed individually in during high school (2:52 at the Northstar Classic in 2006-4th place) and one of my better races two years ago (2:48 at Northern Illinois). Let's hope that holds over through this season, at least to the point that I'm healthy enough to compete.