It's a little past 7 AM on a beautiful Sunday morning and we are finishing up our long run. Campus is very, very quiet after last night's Homecoming football game. I guess everyone is sleeping off the effects of a UWA TD pass with no time remaining on the clock. What an incredible finish to a see-saw contest. Pundits had predicted that the last team to have the ball would likely win and that was UWA last evening.
Earlier in the day we "ran" the homecoming 5K - we ran quite easy and used it as a warm-up for our steady state run - the men ran 10 miles and the women 8. The steady state run was done on a nearby dirt road - pretty hilly - and we had some of our best training performances of the season. It is good to see that our strength is remaining at a high level since we have focused more on speed the past week.
Results from across the conference suggest we can compete favorably with all but one of the teams we finished behind last year. If we stay healthy and run a smart race at conference, I think we'll be able to move up 2-3 spots, if not more.
We have our last "regular season" race this coming weekend at the Oakville Mounds course in north Alabama. It is the site of the Alabama state high school meet so we know it is accurately measured. It is a beautiful course, located in a park where some very old Indian ruins are located. It is a great place to visit and an even better place to run. Several conference schools will be there so we are hoping to compete well.
We have repeat 2000's tomorrow and a combo workout of 300m hills and 400m repeats on Wednesday and then 2 easier, mileage days before the Saturday race. After that, it's just 2 weeks until the GSC conference meet - one of the two meets towards which we have been pointing all year.
The weather is cooling and it's starting to get exciting!
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