Well, after a long cold winter the season is finally here. We opened up at the Grey Ghost Invite last Friday with a great start. I didnt expect much being that we have only been doing tempo runs and fartleks on the road, but there were a lot of suprises. Freshman Rachel Innes won her flight of the 800 in 2:43. What was even more impressive is that she has never ran track! She could be some real help in getting our 4x800 to the state meet.
Senior David Blackford opened up with his first indoor meet ever with a 2:09, good enough for second place. What is really exciting about David is that he has had a stress fracture every track season that I have had him.
Junior Hugh Gill opened up with a 4:49 mile, which was about 13 seconds off where I thought he should be, but still not a bad opener. We just need to work on his racing tactics, plus I think I may have worked him a little too hard last week. No worries though, we are getting ready for the state meet in 3 months. Last but not least, Emily Gustafson opened up with a 5:28 mile, breaking the school record by 3 seconds along the way. Like Hugh Gill, it was a good start, but quite a bit slower that we were hoping for. But being that they decided at the last minute to combine the two heats and throw 42 girls out onto an indoor track for a mile and we didnt even get a chance to do a stride, I will take it.
I just got back from seeing the very, very, very awesome Dr. John Grady in Chicago and the foot is doing pretty well. I have been given the clearance to start running in two weeks time---just in time for spring!!! I should have gotten a picture of me squirming while he hammered my toe with some sort of midieval torture device that is supposed to break up scar tissue. Thank God I am tough as nails. A normal human being would have cracked from the intense pain, but I just smiled and asked for more. (anybody that knows me knows how low my pain threshold is ; )
Thanks for reading and GO RAIDERS!
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