CTTC Summer Track – Week 6.9.09
Around lunch yesterday I started feeling bad and did not feel much like running mile repeats at the Summer Track meet. However, my daughters really like running the 4x100 so I pulled my stuff together and went anyway.
There was a smaller turnout this week so the events were moving faster. Most of the fast guys from last week took the week off. Brian came out and still ripped a good mile all while running alone.
I was feeling anything but good and it showed. I ran 5:20 in the first heat. I thought I might do better by running the 2nd heat since I was warmed up. No such luck, I ran 5:29 in the 2nd heat. Thinking afterwards, I would have been better just taking the evening off, but then that is not my style.
Two of my daughters ran the 2nd heat of the mile. The oldest ran 8:45 and the middle daughter ran 9:08. Although, I think she would have broken 9 minutes but she stopped to help a little boy who had fallen off the track. She has a heart of gold.
I don’t want to leave this out. My daughters and I completed against the older kids in the 4x100 again. We were last by a large margin, but I am very proud of them. They never gave up and the never quit running.
There was a smaller turnout this week so the events were moving faster. Most of the fast guys from last week took the week off. Brian came out and still ripped a good mile all while running alone.
I was feeling anything but good and it showed. I ran 5:20 in the first heat. I thought I might do better by running the 2nd heat since I was warmed up. No such luck, I ran 5:29 in the 2nd heat. Thinking afterwards, I would have been better just taking the evening off, but then that is not my style.
Two of my daughters ran the 2nd heat of the mile. The oldest ran 8:45 and the middle daughter ran 9:08. Although, I think she would have broken 9 minutes but she stopped to help a little boy who had fallen off the track. She has a heart of gold.
I don’t want to leave this out. My daughters and I completed against the older kids in the 4x100 again. We were last by a large margin, but I am very proud of them. They never gave up and the never quit running.
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Take care.
I think running should be fun for them and if they are not interested don't force them. You turn them off faster than anything by making them do it.