So, Coach Klehr has cut the team a break: there is no practice tomorrow on your bonus vacation day. Enjoy the day off from school, but it's probably best to save your "optional" day off from running for Sunday.
There are two reasons for waiting until Sunday. First, it's best to stay in a routine, and all remaining Fridays will have a practice or a meet. Second, if someone takes Friday off, all too often they find themselves trapped with unplanned activities on Sunday, and end up not running either day.
As the season goes on, I highly recommend that everyone take a day off each second or third week - obviously, this day will usually be Sunday. We will quickly be ramping up the intensity, with the season fast approaching, so it will be best to take the occasional break.
On the other hand, I highly recommend that almost everyone take no more than one day per week off (injuries being the exception). After the meets start, the JV runners could have as few as 7 workout days left before JV Counties. So, the season is too short to take many days off.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Weather
As I was running in the beautiful sunshine at lunchtime yesterday (instead of posting something here, oops), I was thinking how nice it will be when we have a day like that for one of our workouts. In the meantime, we'll have to slog through, and realize that it will a) make us tougher, and b) have us prepared for any early-season meets in less than ideal conditions.
For example, since our first dual meet is two weeks from today (wow, that soon?), AccuWeather now has that day's weather included in their 15-day outlook. And what do they say? Hi of 41 and periods of rain. Enough rain to cancel the meet? Or just the pole vault? Hi of 41 will drop to what, by the time the 3000/3200 and 4x800 relays roll around?
Anyway, this is just another reminder to be prepared for changing weather conditions. At this time of year, it is not uncommon for temperatures to swing by 20 degrees in relatively short order. You may leave for school in a t-shirt in the morning, but that doesn't mean you won't necessarily need water-resistant sweats, a hat and gloves for practice in the afternoon.
For example, since our first dual meet is two weeks from today (wow, that soon?), AccuWeather now has that day's weather included in their 15-day outlook. And what do they say? Hi of 41 and periods of rain. Enough rain to cancel the meet? Or just the pole vault? Hi of 41 will drop to what, by the time the 3000/3200 and 4x800 relays roll around?
Anyway, this is just another reminder to be prepared for changing weather conditions. At this time of year, it is not uncommon for temperatures to swing by 20 degrees in relatively short order. You may leave for school in a t-shirt in the morning, but that doesn't mean you won't necessarily need water-resistant sweats, a hat and gloves for practice in the afternoon.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Well, Logical Tomorrow
Since I spent too much time in the car yesterday, Sundays will be a day of rest. So, on Saturday, when I said "tomorrow", that really meant Monday.
It's back to work today for track practice. It looks like the weather will not be cooperating: we have workouts scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but the nice weather this week is supposed to be on Tuesday and Thursday.
So, now our other Varsity participants from the winter. First we have the Webster Varsity Radio Club, starring a bunch of WDR WBER DJs. Since they are on from 4-5, I only get to listen on occasion, but the music is more diverse than the usual fare.
Finally, we had excellent representation on the Varsity Math Team. The Schroeder team at Counties included: John W, Justin M, Ethan, Megan, Khrystyna and Arjun. And Zach will be representing Monroe County at the State Meet in three weeks. I don't see the County results at the Math League web site, but Schroeder did win two of the regular season competitions, knocking off perennial powerhouse Brighton, among others.
It's back to work today for track practice. It looks like the weather will not be cooperating: we have workouts scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but the nice weather this week is supposed to be on Tuesday and Thursday.
So, now our other Varsity participants from the winter. First we have the Webster Varsity Radio Club, starring a bunch of WDR WBER DJs. Since they are on from 4-5, I only get to listen on occasion, but the music is more diverse than the usual fare.
Finally, we had excellent representation on the Varsity Math Team. The Schroeder team at Counties included: John W, Justin M, Ethan, Megan, Khrystyna and Arjun. And Zach will be representing Monroe County at the State Meet in three weeks. I don't see the County results at the Math League web site, but Schroeder did win two of the regular season competitions, knocking off perennial powerhouse Brighton, among others.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Warrior Wrestling
A couple WDR members competed for the wrestling team over the winter. There is a nice wrestling web site that covers Sections V and VI, called armdrag. You can go there and see that Webster was 2-4 in their division, but 8-6 overall.
The web site has links to a listing of all reported results for each individual, so we can see how Eric Krawiec and Jacob Devries did this year, and their career results show up as well.
Tomorrow, we'll point out two additional, non-running, Varsity teams that included Webster Distance Runners!
The web site has links to a listing of all reported results for each individual, so we can see how Eric Krawiec and Jacob Devries did this year, and their career results show up as well.
Tomorrow, we'll point out two additional, non-running, Varsity teams that included Webster Distance Runners!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Webster Swimming
John Killigrew was the lone representative of the WDR on the Webster swim team. As with Nordic, it is a combined team for Schroeder and Thomas.
Like track, swimming has a Section V Leaderboard. Unlike track, it only shows the top 25 in each event, so I only located two Webster swimmers on the lists (plus the 3 relays, but the team members are not called out).
Looking at the results from Sectionals, it is clear that Webster had a young team this year. The top two swimmers were juniors and not many seniors were listed, so perhaps the team, which has had some success in past years, will be stronger next year.
Like track, swimming has a Section V Leaderboard. Unlike track, it only shows the top 25 in each event, so I only located two Webster swimmers on the lists (plus the 3 relays, but the team members are not called out).
Looking at the results from Sectionals, it is clear that Webster had a young team this year. The top two swimmers were juniors and not many seniors were listed, so perhaps the team, which has had some success in past years, will be stronger next year.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Winter Sports
While the majority of Webster Distance Runners competed on the Indoor Track team, several went in other directions during the winter, but are back together for the outdoor season. We'll take a look at what links we can dig up for each of the sports. Today, we'll start with the Nordic Ski Team.
WDR competitors included Eric Mallery, Ben Thompson, Mike Hohl, Ray McBride, Zach Lyons, Phil LiPari, Steven Dana and Joe Hughes on the boys team, and only Amanda Paratore for the girls.
There is a nice web site for Section V Nordic, located here. It includes this link to the results from most of the season's races. The top performance of the year is not shown there: Eric placed in the top 5 at States, after qualifying by placing 7th at Sectionals. How often does someone place higher at States than at Sectionals?!? Future WDR(?), Pete Mallery also had an amazing season, capped with an 11th best split in the Skate relay at Sectionals, after placing 18th in the Classic race, splitting honors as the top freshman in the area (and state?) with Tyler Urckfitz, whose father competed in an epic race recounted here.
Amanda also had an outstanding season, as she led all Webster skiers in the Skate events, following tremendous improvement from her modified season a year ago. In Classic, she was usually second behind Jenna Bilsback (Nate says, "hi").
The rest of the boys, all relatively young and experienced, made solid showings on the Webster JV A team. And after a few days of track practice, it seems their fitness levels remained quite high, despite having wrapped up their season on Feb. 16th.
WDR competitors included Eric Mallery, Ben Thompson, Mike Hohl, Ray McBride, Zach Lyons, Phil LiPari, Steven Dana and Joe Hughes on the boys team, and only Amanda Paratore for the girls.
There is a nice web site for Section V Nordic, located here. It includes this link to the results from most of the season's races. The top performance of the year is not shown there: Eric placed in the top 5 at States, after qualifying by placing 7th at Sectionals. How often does someone place higher at States than at Sectionals?!? Future WDR(?), Pete Mallery also had an amazing season, capped with an 11th best split in the Skate relay at Sectionals, after placing 18th in the Classic race, splitting honors as the top freshman in the area (and state?) with Tyler Urckfitz, whose father competed in an epic race recounted here.
Amanda also had an outstanding season, as she led all Webster skiers in the Skate events, following tremendous improvement from her modified season a year ago. In Classic, she was usually second behind Jenna Bilsback (Nate says, "hi").
The rest of the boys, all relatively young and experienced, made solid showings on the Webster JV A team. And after a few days of track practice, it seems their fitness levels remained quite high, despite having wrapped up their season on Feb. 16th.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Silence is Ended
OK, track season started on Monday, so I should rev up the blog again. In fact, with Lent starting today, perhaps one thing I can give up is skipping blog entries - we'll see how that goes.
The biggest surprise on Monday was the composition of the team. When Nate was a freshman, the team was very large and the distance team was very small (despite having grown significantly from the prior year, thanks to Nate and his band of freshmen). On Monday, after warm-ups, the (not quite as large) team split into two for the workout: distance runners and everyone else. This distance runner group was larger! And nearly half of "everyone else" had run XC!
Despite the 2.5 hours for practice, there was a lot of time pressure for our workout: only 40 minutes for putting on sweats, getting out the door w/up, w/dn and the tempo effort. I forgot to give the lecture on safety, since we are not running in Webster Park now. That may have to be an upcoming blog topic.
The biggest surprise on Monday was the composition of the team. When Nate was a freshman, the team was very large and the distance team was very small (despite having grown significantly from the prior year, thanks to Nate and his band of freshmen). On Monday, after warm-ups, the (not quite as large) team split into two for the workout: distance runners and everyone else. This distance runner group was larger! And nearly half of "everyone else" had run XC!
Despite the 2.5 hours for practice, there was a lot of time pressure for our workout: only 40 minutes for putting on sweats, getting out the door w/up, w/dn and the tempo effort. I forgot to give the lecture on safety, since we are not running in Webster Park now. That may have to be an upcoming blog topic.
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