Splits from SCC Novice Meet

Here are the splits from the SCC Novice Championships

4x800
Veronica 3:18.42 Good job
Abby 3:06.34 Feel like this could be faster but you came back nicely in the 3200
Hannah 2:53.06 Excellent
Sharon 2:46.78 Very Nice Split
12:04.30

55m
Akorfa 9.3 You've worked hard all season. Look at it as an experiment. You tried a few different events and now have a feel for things. Good job
Saparja 8.41 Solid run
Hannah 8.73 Not bad for never running or practicing this before
Emily 9.06 Would have liked to see sub 9 but thats ok. Good job.
Kayla 8.8 Nice job.

1000m
Hannah 3:40.30. Second place, very impressive.

600m
Veronica 2:20.9 Nicely done
Shreya 2:01.4 You've pushed yourself and ran a nice race
Sharon 1:56.07 You had a great meet overall, great split
Wendy 1:56.6 Great time, good job.

SMR
Saparja 31.09 Very nice split
Caroline 33.8 Good job
Emily 1:14.7 Not bad for filling in at the last second.
Shreya 2:52.7 I was impressed, good job
5:11.75

300m
Akorfa- 1:05.92 Same comment as your previous race
Jenna 56.85 Solid effort
Wendy 49.69 Great meet for you, nicely done

3200m
Abby 13:39.15- You made me worried because you went out a little quick. You settled in though and ran a stellar race. Very impressive for having to race alone, nice job.

4x200m
Veronica 36.25
Saparja 33.85
Caroline 33.33
Emily 32.76
2:16.19
Good job

I only have the times for the other relay team and don't have the order of people, my apologies.

31.69
35.93
31.04
32.31

Shot
Krista 18-03.00 Good job.

Great job everyone. We definitely had some impressive performances. You girls worked hard all season and you should be very proud. As I said, you all are welcome to continue practicing with the team until the end of the season. I advise this if you are planning on competing in outdoor track. Also, make sure you get your uniforms into me by Wednesday, no excuses. When I have the exact details about the end of season banquet, I will be sure to let all of you know. Great job again to all of you.

Videos from Yale

Here is a video of our girl's 4x800 from Yale who ran to a very impressive 3rd place.

Video of Rachel winning in the shot.

Rest of the Week

Thursday- SCC Novice Meet
Sprinters not running meet- 6x100 meters Ins and Outs on the track.
Distance not running meet- Easy distance 3-5 miles followed by 4x100 meter strides
Coach Bennett will be running practice.

Friday- Everyone is going to workout. Workouts are still not finalized. Almost positive everyone will be on the track. This is going to be a hard day for everyone.

Saturday- Sprinters- Easy running 2-5 miles followed by 4x75 meter accelerators
Distance- Long run 5-8 miles

Sunday- Everyone off

Practice during exams (Monday-Thursday) will take place at 12:00pm. Try to have some kind of nutritional snack before practice. Workout schedule will depend on the weather and I will post it sometime this weekend. I want to try to take advantage of the track as much as we can while there is no snow. We have a really nice chunk of time to train before SCC's so we are going to continue to go hard the rest of this week and next. I will share with you a quote that I found from someone you would not expect, Oprah Winfrey, but I like it so I will end with this.

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."
-Oprah Winfrey

For My Sprinters...

Since a lot of my video posts have been of distance people, here is something for you. It is a video of Usain Bolt smashing the world record in the 100 meters this past summer at the World Championships in Berlin. No words can describe how good this man is.

Running Celebrities

So since I got some heat at practice about not updating our blog in a while, I felt obligated to put something really good up. I have two short videos that I would like to share. The first video is of last year's Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games in New York City. For those of you who don't know, the Millrose Games is the longest running indoor track meet in the world (almost positive). I was lucky enough to go watch my Junior year of college. It attracts Professional athletes as well as college and high school athletes. The Millrose Games are coming up in a few weeks so that is one of the reasons why I chose this video. The second reason is because of the man who wins. His name is Bernard Lagat and is arguably one of the best middistance runners in the world. My freshman year of college, I went to Manhattan College before transferring to Marist. It was a couple weeks before the Millrose Games and we had one of the few tracks in New York City. I showed up for an early practice with some of the other guys and there he was standing at the far end of the track. We kind of looked at him in awe and then we finally asked him if he wanted to run with us and he agreed. There were only 4 of us and we went on a 6 mile run of Van Cortland Park and it's something I will never forget. He was one of the most humble and nicest persons I've met. The video is of his record breaking 7th win at the Millrose Games and it was quite a race. If you ever have the chance to check out the Millrose Games, I highly recommend it. The second video is of Shalane Flanagan. She won a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in the 10,000 meters. She most recently set a course record at the Houston Half Marathon and this is a clip of the finish. I put this up here for two reasons. The first, she is definitely one of the best American Distance runners out there. The second, I had the chance to run with her at Green Mountain Running Camp. Many are familiar with Green Mountain since you have been going there. Well my last year of camp she was my group leader. And yes, I made sure I was running next to her the whole time but I was just a high schooler trying to impress. At the time, she was running at the University of North Carolina and little did I know that she would go on to achieve what she has done so far. I share this with you because running has allowed me to experience so many different opportunities. While many of you probably don't know who these people are, or maybe track is not your number 1 sport, to me this would be like playing baseball with Derek Jeter or throwing the football around with Eli Manning (I know, they didn't do so hot this year). My point is, take advantage of every opportunity that is presented to you and immerse yourself in what you are doing. You never know who you might meet or what may come of it.

Yale Splits/Feedback

Shot
Rachel- 42-07.25

Won the Shot Put competition by a huge margin. Fantastic performance. I got to see you in "intense mode" which I liked to see.

3000m
Kathleen- 11:10.16. Fantastic race. If converted to the 3200m, sub 12:00. You're moving in the right direction. Well done.

4x800m Relay 3rd 10:06.29

Caitlyn 2:31.9 Huge breakthrough. I'm extremely pumped and proud of you for this split. You now know you have the ability, lets focus on sub 2:30.

Amanda 2:41.9 Solid split. You looked a little flat, that's ok though. You have the ability to run mid 2:30's. We will work on your speed over the next couple weeks.

Sarah 2:29.5. Fantastic split. You will get down to low 2:20's

Julie 2:22.4 Amazing split. A nice PR and great anchor leg. Let's start thinking sub 2:20

Stellar performance ladies. You guys got me fired up in this race. You all ran extremely smart and moved your way up throughout the race. Nicely done!

4x200m 1:56.18

Jill 31.5

Kylee 26.9

Casey 28.2

Ashia 28.99

We all know this was not a great race. There was not much time to even get on the track never mind get settled before the gun. Take it as a learning experience. This is a great relay team and you guys will bounce back from this effort.

Race Videos from Hartford Public

Here is a link to all the race videos from Hartford Public. Flotrack is a great website if you're a running fanatic. It looks as though all races are there.