The Hawks Are Flying Into the Season!

The Hawks really showed up for the first SRA meet of the year, capturing 5 top-ten medals (6 if you include Harper!) and bringing home lots of team pride! The 6th and under girls finished 3rd (out of 33 teams), while the 6th and under boys finished 2nd (out of 40 teams)! Our team is amazing!

In particular, we had so many improvements that we can’t highlight them all. Almost everyone ran a faster pace than they’ve run all year, and everyone fought hard against the other teams! A couple of Hawks really impressed me this week. Isaac, though running this course for the first time, had an amazing race! His bast race pace last year was 8:48/mile – this week he ran under 7 minute pace! Another Hawk who impressed was Gyan. Despite fighting through a side ache, Gyan took more than 2:30 off his time from last year! This team is about every runner and how each of them are improving every day, every season, and it is great to see all of our Hawks succeed!

Our next meet is the SRA XC Meet #2 on October 11th. We have a few weeks to do some serious work – so let’s get those runs in! Here is this week’s schedule:
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Monday:  5:30pm at Stonegate Elementary
10 min warm up, drills
Cone Fartlek at Lock Hills
4 x 300m
10 min cool down, strength

Tuesday: rest and stretch

Wednesday: 
3-4 mile easy run on your own

Thursday: 5:30pm at the Boathouse
10 min warm up, drills, strides
6 x 1 on, 1 off fartlek
10 min cool down, hurdle drills

Friday: rest and stretch

Saturday or Sunday: 
Long run - 3-6 miles, depending on fitness

As always, if you have any questions, please let us know!

Coach Eric