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October 19, 2004
A slacker day
Today as my day turned crazy busy in the afternoon, I decided it was a good day to break. I didn't take any days off last week and I am still pretty sore from the half-marathon. Yesterday I stupidly ran the hard workout with the team and didn't take it easy like I should have. So I only ran 2.5 miles easy this morning and nothing this afternoon.
The team's league championship meet is thursday. Our league is pretty sad as far as cross country goes. Most of the schools in our league have about 120 students in their entire 9-12 grades, some less than 80. My school has about 130 in 9-12. That makes it fairly hard to field both football and cross country or volleyball and cross country. Not as hard as they make it out to be, but it does cost a fair bit of money to bus the cross country team around too.
In any case we have only 4 complete teams in the league for boys and 6 schools total that have programs. For the girls, none of the other schools have complete teams! You'd think it would be reverse since football can suck up 20 boys pretty easily and volleyball usually doesn't get quite that many girls.
I had to debate quite a bit about how to run the girls team, since they have like no competition. I finally decided that since districts is 8 days after this race, that they should run hard during the race, keeping their racing toughness.
The end of the season taper is always something I spend a lot of time on. Its really easy to do too much. I'll be trying to give lots of rest and recovery time, but also working in short sprint work for added speed. This year is a little crazy because the boys team will be peaking at our district/regional meet, while the girls will be trying to time their peak for the state meet.
Monday: 2.5 miles AM, 5.5 miles PM - "Feel the Burn" time trial - 15:50
Tuesday: 2.5 miles AM
Posted by at October 19, 2004 8:21 PM