Announcements Oct 3-8
Wow! It’s hard to believe but we are getting pretty close to the end of our season! We have our home meet at Sunset Beach this Saturday, then we run at Myrtle Point the following Saturday, and the next week is District! I know that makes all our athletes so sad and they want to wail and cry. But don’t worry kids, we will run really really hard for the next couple weeks and then you won’t miss it so much when it ends!!!
Parents, you are probably noticing that your athlete is getting pretty tired by the end of the week. That’s normal for this part of the season. Eating well and getting enough sleep are really important right now. It’s also common for the kids to start dropping some weight. Packing an extra snack or two for them to eat during the day can help.
We also want to make sure that students aren’t feeling overwhelmed with schoolwork, practice, and meets. If anyone is concerned about a class or about not enough time to do homework, come talk to us! We’d be happy to work something out to help make things more comfortable.
Finally, I want to encourage athletes to think about the changing weather. You might want to wear some sweats to practice. Warm muscles are less easily injured, and warm athletes are less cranky.
Here’s what’s coming up:
Monday: regular practice
Tuesday: regular practice
Wednesday: regular practice. Can you believe how lucky you are to get to go for a run every day?
Thursday: We will take a bus out to Sunset Beach for our practice. We need to go over our home course so we will be ready for our meet on Saturday! Come to practice as usual and a bus will pick us up by the track at 4:00. We’ll ride out to the beach and go over the course. YOU MIGHT WANT TO BRING OLD SHOES. THEY WILL LIKELY GET WET. We are hoping to be back to the track at MHS by 5:45. As we’ve already experienced, sometimes our plans get fouled up (one year when we did this we had it timed perfectly until we were on our way home and the bridge in Charleston was open). If we get delayed we’ll put kids on cell phones to let you know.
Friday: no school, no practice. Your poor old coaches need a day off.
Saturday: SUNSET BEACH INVITATIONAL!!!! There is no bus (coaches will be out at the beach early to get everything set up, so we can’t meet a bus). We’d like to have everyone there by 10:00. Girls race at 11:00, boys at 11:30. At 12:00 ***drum roll**** is an Open Division 3000 meter run! Parents, siblings, friends, neighbors—come and run the same course the kids run! This is an awesome time for parents to strut their stuff in front of their kids. C’mon, parents, let’s show those kids that although we’re old, we are still studs!
I do need parent volunteers during this race! I’ll need about 6 people to work the finish chute, a couple for traffic control, and at least one or two big burly guys to stand at strategic places on the course and make sure no one cuts (we call that “casting fear”). It’s nice if we can have enough volunteers that we can trade them off so they still get to watch their kids race. Just let me know and I’ll create a job for you!
Coming up: Saturday, Oct 15: Myrtle Point Invitational. They only run one race at this meet—girls and boys together. Our kids always love it!
District—we think the date will be changed to Wednesday the 19th instead of Thursday the 20th but are still waiting for confirmation. We will let you know as soon as we hear!
Awards—we always do an awards dessert at the end of the season. Parents: we consider this an extremely important part of what we do. We will let you know when and where when we get that settled.
You might be interested to know that while I was writing this Jake was asleep in the other room. He snores REALLY loud.
–Coach Barb