First, thank you to all who ran on Saturday at Burridge Pond. A 45 Minute run in between the raindrops worked out well for everybody. A poll of those in attendance resulted in approval of Burridge Pond for a potential XC home course. Flat and fast, and zero pavement. Logistically, I don't know if it can work. But I will follow up with Park and School authorities and let you know the results. In the meantime we will run against Duxbury on our course at the WHRHS on Tuesday. I trust everybody enjoyed his/her day off today and is ready to return to work tomorrow. It won't be a tough day, but I don't think we'll be going with our customary pre-race routine. Frankly, I enjoyed our indoor practice on Friday. It gave us the opportunity to work on upper body strength which is, in my opinion, critical to both good running form and stamina. You'll need both in the weeks ahead. Tomorrow, everybody will run 25 minutes and then meet on the front field for our "whistle drill." Similar to Friday's practice, we will jog and on the whistle start 1 of 4/5 circuit exercises until the whistle sounds again when we will return to jogging. We'll repeat the sequence for 10-15 minutes.
Right now Wednesday looks like an Easy day following our Duxbury meet and Thursday will be a tempo run of 10/20/10 on school grounds. Ordinarily I discourage earphones/music during practice when we take to the roads. I am suggesting that Thursday's run on school property be one in which you can, if you'd like, wear those earphones and even create a music playlist which corresponds with our workout of 10 Easy, 20 Hard, 10 Easy. I've created several over the years and I have one which I will use on Thursday as I plan to complete the very same workout. I'll share that "old guy" playlist (no synthesizers (well, maybe a little), no female vocalists (with all due respect to TSwift,) loud guitars) with you at some point between now and then.
Just a reminder, think PINK for Tuesday and everybody focus on academics. I have no idea about the contract status of the WH teachers, but I do know you are all at school to learn and your grades are representative of your efforts. Progress reports have not yet been mandated for those with less than B- grades, but you should be working diligently to maintain that grade as a minimum. It is the most important thing you do . . .
See you at 2:30!
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