What a great week we had last week! We’ve been working really hard. Tim and I have been so impressed with this great bunch of athletes! You’ve all risen to the level of workout that we’ve asked from you. Awesome!

Myrtle Point was a fun meet! Tim enjoyed having the whole town of Myrtle Point sing happy birthday to him. He even blushed! And we ran pretty well, too! I don’t have results yet (I’ll get them on Thursday at district) but I heard our boys were 1^st and the girls were 2^nd. Good job! After the meet I had a good ride home on my bike. It was 24 miles. It would have been 25 but we live on top of a hill so I called Tim and had him pick me up at the bottom. Must have been you kids who wore me out. J

This week we will have much lighter workouts. We want you all rested and ready for district on Thursday! So just for fun, this week you can tell your friends that we are taking it easy in practice and only running a couple miles at a time. They will think you are crazy. It will be great!

Monday: practice

Tuesday: practice in a muddy place.

Wednesday: PICTURES! Brush your teeth, comb your hair, and wear your uniform! There will be picture packets available. I will either get them to you before Wednesday (if the photographer gets them to me in time) or you can pick them up on Wed. from the picture lady. They’ll take a team photo and will do individual photos for those who want them. They won’t be as awesome as our pictures of the long jump contest at the dunes, but they will be something you can have to remember our season. And that is a good thing.

Thursday: DISTRICT MEET AT TUGMAN PARK!! Girls race at 4:15, boys at 4:45. We will have a one-way bus to the park (no bus home, have your parents come get you or you’ll have to walk. Or steal Barb’s bike). Millicoma students will be excused at 1:10, the bus is leaving Millicoma at 1:25. Then we go to the high school to pick up our awesome eighth graders at 1:50 (excused from class at 1:30). After that the bus will drive to Sunset to load kids at 2:05 (excused from class at 1:55). After the races there’s a hot dog feed. Cody loves hot dogs; you will have to fight him for them.

I am in the process of setting up our awards night. I am trying to arrange for next Tuesday (the 25^th) at the high school cafeteria. I will keep you all posted.

Coach Barb

Great job on Saturday! I hope you all got your shoes dried out after running through the surf and across the creek. Tim and I always love watching our athletes run the Sunset Invitational for a couple reasons: first of all it’s a beautiful course and who doesn’t love running at the beach? And second, we are at the point in our season where athletes are running distances and times they didn’t think they were capable of a few short weeks ago! It ROCKS that you guys go out every day after school and run a few miles! Most of your friends will never have that experience. We are very proud of you! We hope that you will enjoy running for the rest of your lives!

Next Saturday, Oct 15 is an exciting day for two reasons: 1) It’s Tim’s birthday! He will be a whopping 52 years old! Can you believe it? I bet most of you didn’t know that anyone could even get that old. We will have to look for an opportunity to sing happy birthday to him. We’ll be sure to look for a time when we can really embarrass him. J And, 2) We have a meet at Myrtle Point! This is a really fun race. It starts and ends at the high school in Myrtle Point. There is only one race—boys and girls all run together. We’ll take a bus up and back.

Here’s our schedule:

Monday, Oct 10: Practice!

Tuesday: Practice!

Wednesday: Guess what—practice!

Thursday: Um….practice!

Friday: no school! Stay home and eat ice cream!

Saturday, Oct 15: Myrtle Point Invitational! We will catch the bus in the parking lot by the track at Marshfield. Bus loads at 9:50, leaves at 10:00. The race is at 12:00. Immediately afterwards we get back on the bus and come home, so we’ll be back at Marshfield approximately 1:45.

Monday: Oct 17: Practice!

Tuesday: Practice!

Wednesday: Short, light practice!

Thursday, Oct 20: DISTRICT MEET AT TUGMAN PARK! Girls race at 4:00, boys at 4:30. There is usually an after-race time that involves hot dogs, too. That ought to make Cody happy, too!

Knock, Knock

Who’s there?

Boo

Boo who?

Don’t cry, cross country will be back again next year!

Coach Barb

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 19^th instead of Thursday the 20^th 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

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