Nike/Littleton Moved to Monday

The Nike/Littleton Invite has been moved to Monday afternoon at Legacy Stadium, Cherokee Trail HS. The school and the stadium are located at the corner of E. Arapahoe Rd & E. Smoky Hill Rd. (It is where League Championships got snowed out last year.)

We are going to meet at CHS at noon to get on the bus to head out there. Showing up at 12:01 is late. The school will be open beforehand, if you need to get anything out of your lockers. Below is the schedule of events.

Since the meet has been moved to Monday, we are going to run the fastest kids in all of the events. Nothing has changed on the sprinter side, or the field event side, but we did have some modifications on the distance side. Below are the new line-ups, along with tentative race start times. The distance medley has been canceled, as well as all of the preliminary events. All events will be run as finals. Unfortunately, that squeezes some kids out of some events, but there is nothing that can be done about it. If you see your name on this sheet and you cannot make the meet, you need to email me at my gmail account as soon as possible!

Nope, that is not a type-o, the boys 4 x 400 goes off at 11:05 EST (Eastern Standard Time), 9:05 MST (Mountain Standard Time), and 5:05 HST (Hawai'i Standard Time). That will be AWESOME!

For practice for the next three days, it is imperative that no matter what the weather is, you get out and run. Today, Friday, you need to do some easy jogging (20-30) minutes or so, and then relax. Saturday, before all this prom nonsense gears up, you need to get another easy run in, but also do some longer bursts of speed. A 40-50 minute fartlek with about ten sprints between 45 and 75 seconds would be perfect. Sunday is an easier day, probably a twenty minute run, and some accelerations. If you can run these accelerations on a slight downhill, to increase leg turnover, that would be perfect.

In addition to all of these workouts, you also need to keep taking good care of your body by stretching, icing, eating well, drinking lots of fluids, mentally preparing yourself, and everything else that we do to get ready for racing. It is supposed to be a gorgeous day weather wise, Monday is traditionally a speed day for us, and we have raced fantastically on Mondays in the past. Do not go into this meet thinking it does not matter or it has no importance. It has LOTS of importance. We only have two more weeks after this meet to get our times down and get qualified for State. This meet should be looked at as a gift. We will have great weather, a fast track, awesome competition, and no distractions to deal with. So let's go out there and really try to lay down some fast times and show the State that we are one of the elite teams in Colorado!

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