Fun Friday! Short run today then Coach S will challenge you physically while promoting competition, fair play and team work. Trust me on this. It is FUN!
Today's EASY run should set off bells and whistles in your heads. What do they have planned for tomorrow? Three words. Long Run, Southfield. Actually, it has been renamed. Four words. Long Run, Union Point. In any event we will be meeting at 8:00AM at the former Naval Air Station, South Weymouth. Directions can be found easily via Google at "Jet on a Pole" or 26 Memorial Grove Avenue, Weymouth, MA. Most of you are familiar with the area, but for those who are not, the terrain is primarily an asphalt bike, walking, running path. Last week you were asked to increase your weekly long run by 10%, so no increases should be made this week for those who did so.
Sunday will be a day off and Monday will be a shakeout run. Tuesday we travel to Hingham which will provide the competition we'd hoped for this week. On the subject of this week . . . I have more than a few pet peeves. You know a few. Missing practice, talking over me, tucking in your shirts. Another is "distorting truth." On Tuesday, the day scheduled for our meet, the Pembroke coach and I, via a series of e-mails, agreed that each of us hoped to hold our meet. That decision, of course, rested with our Administrators and ADs. The Patriot League, in its entirety, made the decision to cancel the Tuesday meets and ADs scrambled to reschedule. North Quincy for example hosted Plymouth South yesterday. Other meets will be run today. I have heard from numerous sources that our meet was postponed in order for US to receive an unfair advantage because Pembroke is entered into the Ocean State Invitational on Saturday. Like the other teams in the league, our meet should have been re-scheduled to yesterday or today. However, Pembroke it seems, is running ALL its athletes, not just its top runners, on Saturday, so can't send a representative team. Pembroke also, I'm told, is having difficulty obtaining transportation if, in fact, it wanted to send its team. I won't question why Pembroke won't run against us this week. Injury concerns, transportation woes . . . They work for me. But what I won't hear is that we had hoped to obtain an ADVANTAGE by changing the date for our meet. The decision was made at the League level, not by W-H administration or its Athletic Director unilaterally. Certainly, not by me, who happened to be marking the course when I got the telephone call letting me know about the cancellation. While re-scheduling the meet to today would have, in all likelihood, resulted in an advantage to our team if Pembroke sat out its varsity runners entered into the OSI, it does not change the fact we were ready, willing and able to run on Tuesday and never gave any consideration whatsoever to gaining an unfair advantage over an opponent. Anybody who suggests otherwise is, as my dear, sweet Irish immigrant grandmother used to say, "full of old shoes!"
See you at 2:30.
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