Update

So, if you are not going to the meet tomorrow, but you still want to practice, I suggest the following: 10-15 min warm-up, then do "Carpenter's Perfect Run." then do 10-15 min cool-down with really good stretching.

A "C.P.R." is 20 minutes of running. You can run on the track, in the park, through the neighborhoods' doesn't matter. You set your watch to beep every minute, and you run really hard for one minute, then recovery run for the next minute. Repeat this cycle ten times. It is pretty hard, but it is a great, efficient, compact work-out.

So, the Mullen entries are in, we are just now waiting to see if we get accepted. Once that process is done, we will try and figure out what the best line-ups are for the Regis meet.

Just venting now, but it makes me angry that all of these meets are restricting entries to only two runners per event. The reason they limit the number of kids to 2, instead of three, is that they want to get lots of teams there, at 200 bucks a team. The more teams, the more money. But, if they get too many teams, then the meet takes forever. So, to maximize the number of teams (money), but keep the meet at a manageable size they limit your runners to two. Even though we are restricted to two runners, for lettering purposes, if you would have been the third runner, you will still get credit for lettering. But, what bothers me the most is that I know we have runners who are good enough to be the number one runner on lots of other teams, but they are the number three runner at CHS. Grrrrrr....

At League Championships, though, we still go with three runners, so we still need to get a good strong top three in each event for us to achieve our goals. And League Championships and State Meet is why we gotta keep working hard and keep plugging along through all of this upheaval we have been facing.

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