Training Log Archive: barb

We are up to 8 definite athletes at the IS Champs on two teams (Int and JV), plus 5 parents, another coach (Izzy), and the possibility of another 2 kids plus 1 parent. Dream come true. All flight, rental car and hotel arrangements have been made. Still need to register one or two people.

In other news, I got to spend time with little Diego (Katia & Giovanni's son) last night! He is twice as big as he was last time I saw him. He smiles.

C • Diego sighting 1

Took a stats midterm today.

Nearly final plans are now in place CRLS is fielding a JV team at the Interscholastics Championships. We will have 6 or 7 guys, and I hope it works out!

C • IS Teams 13

Spent an hour and a half at Boojum with Keegan and Harlan. We did the same exercises as yesterday with the high school track kids. Keegan and Harlan were faster than me so I had them pick up the ribbons and just met them at the finish of each of 5 little courses. Then I had them do the orange level legs at the end. Keegan prefers urban sprints to being in the scratchy woods. Harlan likes the woods. They have different strategies that work well for them; I forget the details at the moment, but Harlan doesn't read the map well while moving, so he stops, carefully figures out the next step, identifies where he's going, and gets there as fast as he can. Repeat.

I'm getting kind of excited. Will register the team today. We have 5 boys, plus two more possible ones. Need to fundraise to pay for it. Need to train them in the remaining 3-4 weeks. Have to figure out travel logistics. Slightly overwhelming but a lot of fun.

Isak is doing a great job of coaching the other boys. I really appreciate how open he has been to trying to pull off this adventure. He had a couple sessions with some of the xc team members in the fall, laying the groundwork.

Setting white/yellow controls for 3 CRLS kids in our first team training. It will be interesting to see if we pull this off.
Tomorrow I plan to train with a younger kid on the same maps. Need to print a couple more out because while I was in the woods I gave away three maps to passersby with kids. People are remarkably open to stranger old ladies handing out maps and explaining about orienteering.