Wooster Opener

 
Ridding in style with the Fan Express Bus

We had our opening "meet" last night at Wooster College.  I really liked the unique set up of the meet and we got a great effort in.  We had a 5k race and a 4 mile race for the men and a 4k and 5k race for the women.  We had our teams run both.  The ladies started off the day with the 4k.  Next up for the 5k was for the men.  We ran both of those races at Marathon Pace.  Brian Brennan and Brady Jeffers ended up finishing 1-2 in the 5k, running it as a workout.  Next was the women’s 5k.  Freshman Kelly Brennan had a great performance and finished 3^rd looking very comfortable in her second race of the day.  The men finished off the day with 4 miles at Tempo effort.  We then follow up the races with a weight session.  We brought some med balls, weighted PVC pipe along with us so we could keep our normal lifting pattern.  I was really happy with the effort the team gave and the focused they showed during both races.  It ended up being a great workout for the whole group.  They showed great restraint and executed the plan perfectly.

We have another race on Saturday at Ohio Wesleyan where we will get after it more than we did last night.  We are building our training and racing to be ready to run our best at the end of the season.


Brian and Brady looking comfortable going 1-2 in the 5k


Maeve and Bailee post-race

The team has done a great job of adapting to a culture of success and having a hard nosed work ethic.  I have thrown a lot at them since we started at camp and I am excited at how well they are adapting.  The future is going to be exciting.


Post race med ball work

“My futures so bright I gotta wear shades”

I have included links to a few social media accounts to give you instant updates on how the team is doing.  So if you are interested in getting an inside look into our program, you can follow the team and myself at the links bellow.  Hope to see some new followers.

@run800met instagram
@BW_TF_XC Instagram
@BW_track twitter
@coachjoeeby twitter

Season opener

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!