8/14 update

Braves,

We have a lot of announcements in this email, so be sure to read it thoroughly.

Minicamp was extremely successful and we were able to put in a lot of miles and get used to running in the afternoons as well. Now that summer training is behind us we will begin our typical school day and race routine. Our first race is on Thursday of this week. We will let you know if you are running JV or Varsity on Monday or Tuesday of this week. At the end of the email I will include the names of who has been entered in the meet. If you won’t be here to race, please let me know TODAY so I can take you out and we don’t have to pay the entry fee for you, or worse, lose a varsity spot. The bus will leave for the meet at 3:15. We will meet at the field house to be picked up, and we should be back a little after 7. The course for this meet is the state course, so we have a nice opportunity early in the year to get experience on it.

In order to be prepared for the meet, we will be issuing uniforms after practice on Monday. You need to have completed register my athlete and paid the fee in the office to be able to race, so please take care of those. I keep forgetting to mention this, but it is something that will be extremely helpful for you. I recommend investing in a pair of racing flats. Racing flats are smaller and lighter than training shoes and typically have a space where you can put in spikes. They still have rubberized bottoms, unlike track spikes, but they can have spikes inserted into them. The advantage of having racing flats is they are lighter, faster, and more agile. You wouldn’t train in racing flats (except to break them in, or on pre-race days) because they aren’t meant to endure the rigors of season long training, but they are great for racing. A good place to get racing flats would be Wasatch running in Centerville. I usually recommend that store because of their selection and the discount that they give BHS athletes. Just tell them you run for Bountiful and they give you a discount. Striders in Layton is also a good store. I often recommend against online stores because you don’t have the chance to try them on and verify that they fit your foot well.

Practice this upcoming week will be 2 PM each day except Thursday because of the race and Friday might be a different time, so stay tuned for that. The reason we are going into afternoons now is so that we are used to the heat. Make sure to bring your water so you can hydrate between sets. After Monday you did a lot better and not stopping during sets to drink, and that will be very helpful in our heat preparation.

There has been a slight change to our meet schedule. On Sept. 9 we are no longer going to the Murray invitational. The reason for that is so that we can run hard on the Wednesday before, which is also at the state course, and then be ready to run the next Wednesday at our district meet. Ultimately it will allow us to get 2 quality races in with plenty of rest instead of cramming 3 races in 7 days and wear us down. We are also going to add a meet on either Friday the 2^nd in the afternoon OR Saturday the 3^rd in the morning. We will decide which of those we will be attending by the middle of this week. If you would like to check the schedule and find out where the meet for this Thursday is, please see http://bravesxc.blogspot.com/p/2016-schedule.html

We have had a very productive summer training, but we still have a lot of work to do. Remember that our team goal of qualifying for state is a process that isn’t accomplished just at the region meet. Though we qualify at the region meet, the process started back in June and will continue until the end of the season. We are on the right track, but we need each member of our team to step up and increase their level, so that our team can make that jump. This is an awesome and uncommon group, so we must take advantage of it.

Here is who is competing on Thursday, if your name is not on the list but you would like to compete, send me an email and we will see if we can get you in. If you are on the list but are not going to be there, let me know ASAP so I can take you off. Thanks, See you Monday at 2!

Coach Caitlin

Coach Jacobson

Isabelle Barlow                 

                Leslie     Brand                   

                Emmie  Dyer                     

                Kiwi        Hogan                  

                Victoria Jones                   

                Kaela     McPheters         

                Sadee   Pack                      

                Anna Sophia       Rorrer Warner                  

                Kamora Wayman                             

Tyson    Fox                        

                Andrew Hess                    

                John      Hess                     

                Ben        Liston                   

                David     Miller                   

                Stratton Tidwell               

                Gabe     Ure                       

                Justin    Wood   

Ryan      Giebel                  

                Luke      Hughes                

                Dallin     Mason                 

                Daniel   Mason                 

                Blake     Nielson                

                Ryan      Roodbol              

                Aaron    Stanley