Camp Fitch!

I am currently at a week long seminar put on by the Institute for Humane Studies. I am not certain of any particular scholarships they offer, but I do know they offer a lot for certain disciplines, so it could be worth a look for the college bound guys.

I have limited time so I thought I would directly quote what the guys had to say about camp:

Andrew H.:

I have to admit that when we first got to camp, I was a little freaked out and like "why did coach bring us out 6 hours to go to a camp in the middle of nowhere with 6 kids?" and stuff like that, but actually, it was awesome!

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We got in a great week of training, 47.5 miles for 5 days, which is not a ton of miles, but Matt and I were running about 6:20-6:40 pace for our normal runs, and 7:09 pace for the 10 miler. They had great speakers, we got a ton of running articles and such, and it was a great experience. I feel like Matt, Keith and I all grew as runners greatly this past week. The speakers and other campers motivated us and made us even more hungry to win a WCAC and State title.

Yeah, the food was pretty bad, and there were a couple mice in our cabin, but it was very much worth it. I would highly recommend it to runners in the future.

Matt:

Camp was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it. As you said the food was of a rather low quality, but we didn't starve. The motivational speeches were realy good, and I wish the rest of the team had heard them too. The gatorade after every run was good and the 10 mile run was fast and fun. We had at least 2 mice in our cabin.

Keith:

Camp was pretty fun even though the food was pretty bad. We got in a lot of miles in the whole week. we would do 2 runs a day. The morning run would be around 3 and the evening run would be about 6. one day it was pouring rain and lightning so we had to cut it short. And on thursday we had a 10 mile race in the morning which i did in 75 something which was like a 7:30 pace. We ran to get ice cream that night. It was good. The three other kids at the camp were two seniors and one freshman. The two other seniors said that their pr was around 16:30 but i was faster than the other freshman. The camp was good overall.

Sounds like everyone had a good time. Time to get fired up!

Coach

Camp and Matt

Last week Matt had a record breaking week. He recorded his highest mileage week ever at 63. On the way to that he ran a 15 mile day, consisting of a 7/8 double. Hats off to him on that.

Matt, Keith, and Andrew are all currently at Camp Fitch. Apparently the number of campers is down this year, as they consist of 50% of the runners for the boys camp. Hopefully they are still running a lot and having a good time. If not, I might have to get them donuts twice a week for a while until they forgive me.

Note to all those guys who I haven't seen at the track this summer... START SHOWING UP! I will be gone next week, but some of the seniors will still be running practice. 8:00 in the parking lot next to the track.

It is a great day to be a knight!

Coach

Drew Fletcher... 500 MILES!

Drew has now logged 500 miles, so welcome to the 500 mile club! He is in good company:

Drew
Andrew H.
Matt G.
Andrew S.
Manny

Tempo run went well today. The guys who have been logging miles are in a great position going into August. It is do or die time for the guys who haven't been at practice or logging miles. It is near impossible to make up for lost training time once the season begins. If anyone who didn't sign up for camp would like to go, let me know and we will see if we can still get you in.

Keep running!

Coach

Back in VA

I will hopefully get back on the schedule of blogging on a more regular schedule now that I am back from vacation. My trip included winning two races and logging some miles with my old college buddies.

The guys who have been coming to practice have been tearing it up. Matt logged a 15 mile total for 1 day on 2 runs and ended up with 63 miles for the week. Keith and Kevin are cranking out 6 milers. More to come for sure. Camp starts the 20th!

Time to catch up on work.

Coach

Trials 800

Watch it once. Notice who wins. Then go back and see what place those guys are in with a lap to go. Here is how big of a deal this is.