We are in our final preparations for the championship part of the season here in EP. Tuesday evening we finished up the conference duel meets with a big win over up-and-coming Morton. That put us at 6-1 for the season, the first time since i was here in 1995. The only team beating us was number seven in the state, Metamora.
Every kid ran big prs last Saturday at the Delevan Classic, bringing home a 2nd place trophy. It was a flighted race and we medaled 6 out of the 7 races! Most suprising were my two 80 lb freshmen who both broke 20 minutes for the first time ever for 3 miles. Actually, neither had ever been under 24 minutes!
Tomorrow is our last invite for the season, the Metamora Invitational. Because we are so young, I am running all the underclassmen in the fresh/soph race so we can bring home some more hardware. I am holding out the top 5 runners for a blowout workout tonight of mile, 2x800, 4x400 at the conference course, as we havent really had a chance to do any real hard workouts in between racing twice a week.
My running is gradually coming around, and I will really start to put more emphasis on it after the season is done in a few weeks. Our goals for the next few weeks are as follows:
2nd Conference (Metamora is just too strong)
Hugh Gill and Kevin Eades All Conference
Repeat as Conference Fresh/Soph Champs
Top 5 Regionals
Top 10 Sectionals
That is a pretty tall order with the group I have, but you got to set big goals if you are ever going to run big. Thanks for reading and I will keep you posted.
Go Raiders!
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