Good news, we will be able to start high school (incoming 9th graders through 12 graders) XC as planned on June 1st at Washington Elementary at 7:00a!
Now the bumma news, we will not be able to host our Youth Summer Running Club this year. For over 10 years, this has been one of our highlights of the summer, and we are very sad that we won't be able to host it this year. We are planning on putting on some challenges that can be done at home and still recognize those kids that run a their summer marathon (26.2 miles over the summer). So please check back for info on our weekly challenges that will start the first week of June!
Hooray for HS XC practice though! That is great news. So here's the plan and some of the guidelines: We will start summer practice on June 1st at 7:00a at Washington Elementary - between now and then be working on some stuff (see below); everyone will need to have their temp checked every day coming into practice; you must stay home if you feel sick; everyone must have their own water bottles (absolutely no sharing - we've been saying this for years!); we do have a limit on group size... my challenge is for us to hit that limit and make us coaches then decide how to split things up!
Between now and June 1st:
- if you haven't looked at the Parent/Athlete Meeting slides, please do - this is in place of our Parent Meeting we usually have at the end of the school year.
- take a look at the 2020 schedule and start making some plans - we are still in a little flux with some of the meets (particularly travel meets).
- Start running! If you're not sure where to start, go back to the previous post and decide where you are at in the different stages and start from there... everyone needs to start getting in shape.
- Report your minutes - even if you haven't been running much (or at all), go to this form and update your minutes and set a goal for yourself (the more specific the goal the better) - and catch up any weeks you might miss. This isn't so much to have the coaches be able to spy on you (although maybe a little), it is more about you starting to show some of the dedication and commitment it takes to be a strong runner and a member of a team.
- Also some things to help you out - it would be great if you start to incorporate the lunge matrix, leg swings and SAMs into your daily workout routine. These are great strengthening exercises that will help you get and stay healthy and injury free.
- Lunge Matrix video
- Leg Swings video
- SAM video
- Now about this stuff, why do them? No doubt, some of us who know this stuff realize the benefits of these exercises and others aren't so sure about them. Like everything in life, you won't really do a great job with them until YOU buy in. So until you start to realize the benefits of these exercises, maybe you'll just take my word for it - these will help you be stronger; a stronger runner is a healthier runner; a healthier runner is a faster runner...
- Get out and get to know some of your teammates and encourage others to start up running. We know that not everyone is going to be totally open to running with the team, yet, but you can be talking/texting with each other and encouraging and supporting each other to get started and get ready for summer practice.
- Maybe the most important thing we can learn from this time is that we can do difficult things and we can do them in less than ideal conditions. Because if we learn that now, think how awesome we are going to be when times are better!
And finally, most of you know I like to throw a quote or something out each week. This time I'm going to post
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