Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Championship Season Is Here!


















A lot has happened since I last updated everybody. The distance boys are running prs every meet, most of my best female distance runners are hurt, I am back to running a bit, I helped put on a ultra for troubled troubled people and my truck was trashed on prom night!
First off, anybody that decides to run for 150 miles one a muddy 10 mile loop at 15 minute per mile pace has serious mental issues. Let me do the math for you, thats 50 hours of running...MENTAL! A friend fo mine puts on the McNaughtin Ultra so I decided to go out and help. It ended up raining over an inch the night of and all day during the first day. So needless to say it was an absolute nightmare. Fortunately nobody suffered any major injuries, just a lot of "my legs started cramping after the first 24 hours." MENTAL.
We have had qute a few meets over the last week and it would take an hour to update everybodys successes. Just a few shout outs. Freshman stud Kevin Eades has gotten his 2 mile time down to 10:20 and I see a sub 10 in his very near future. Hugh Gill has his 3200 time down to 10:05 and we are hoping for a sub 9:50 which will qualify him for the state meet. Sophmore goof Cody Margetis has found his niche running a huge split to win our fresh/soph meet running a 6 second pr of 56! Probably one of the highlights of the year. David Blackford (pictured below leading the chase pack for second) ran a big pr of 2:04 in the 800. Soph Alex Cortes got nipped at the Tim Broe F/S Invite for the win running 4:48. To make it short I now have 6 sub 5 minute milers and hopefully a 7th Friday night.
The girls has been a whole different story. Cassie Lohmeier has been battling IT band issues and is done for the year. Emily Gustafson is running well but has a serious calf problem and the conference meet is 48 hours away. Rachel Innes, the suprise of the year, has a strained lower back and is iffy for Thursday nights conference meet. On a positive, freshman stud Autumn Andrews' foot is healing and she ran a big pb Friday on 2:27 and 61. Ashley Schmitt also ran great last week, running a pb of 5:44.
The big story of the week though was me waking up to find my truck trashed the morning after Prom. After doing a little investigating, it appears the girls dates must have been really boring because they decided to pay me a visit. As if seran wrap and mushed bananas werent enough, they thought a bag of flower in a rain storm would be a nice way to cap the night off! After a little scalding, I did tell them that I am honored they were thinking of poor coach Broe on the biggest social night of their lives. Ah, high school girls ; )
Thats all I got for you now. I have gotten the runs up to 5-6 miles but the foot pain continues. We now officially in championship season so I will keep everybody posted on all our Raider success!
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