We had a great week of camp and followed that up with a great first week of school. The group is getting into the swing of practice and our workout schedule. We as a staff have thrown a lot of new things at them. We have a new warm up, cool down, we do core circuits after runs, we added hill sprints in, and we have started going to the weight room twice a week. We are trying to slowly implement all of the new things slowly. All of the items we have added are supposed to help prevent injury not cause them. Next week we will add in a speed development session and at that point we should have all of the ancillary extras added in. They will get more and more complex as the students adapt and learn the movements, but the major pieces will be in place.
Today is our first "meet" of the year. We will be heading down to College of Wooster for multiple races. Because of NCAA rules we need to run a meet on the 1st of September due to coming back early and going to a team camp. We are going to use this as a glorified workout as we will be "racing" again on Saturday. The schedule is women's 4k, men's 5k, women's 5k, men's 4 mile. We will have the majority of our crew running in both races. Tuesday is normally an important workout day for us, so this early in the year I want to keep our schedule as normal as possible. So we will have entered everyone in both races and expect a solid effort out of today but nothing that will go to the well.
I am excited for the group we have. They have done a great job of working hard each day and paying attention to detail. Any time there is a new coach it can be a hard transition for the athletes and the coaches. Fortunately or unfortunately I have experience in this and this has been one of the smoothest transitions as a whole that I have dealt with.
Until next time, Awww Jackets!
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