Braves,
These emails are increasingly more difficult to send because
if I try and do it while Jack is awake he just has to be on my lap banging on
the keyboard. Somehow he made all the icons on the desktop super tiny. Another
time he highlighted all the text in an email and deleted it in quick
succession. Luckily I could hit the undo button and it all came back.
With that in mind I am going to try and keep this short and
quick. This week we raced at the district championships and a jv meet. The boys
finished 3rd, which is their highest placing since at least 2012,
which is as far back as runnercard.com goes. The girls were 4th even
though they outscored the boys team. Our
teams had a great showing highlighted by some spectacular effort from each
person who competed. There wasn’t a single race where it looked like you weren’t
ready to compete. Some of the greatest effort races came at the JV meet. It was
awesome to see some of the hard work that Kaitlyn and Emmalyn have been putting
in pay off as they both PR’d by around 10 seconds in the mile. Likewise with
Jared, who had a huge 4 second PR in the 400m. We loved watching them improve
and show off in a race how hard they have been working all season. They
epitomized what our team is about: working hard day in and day out, then seeing
the pay off in the race. It isn’t realistic to have a PR after every race, but
you have to put in the work to give yourself a chance to PR in every race. This
week really gave us hope for our upcoming region meet, which is only a month
away. We really need to take advantage of every day between now and then to
give ourselves a chance to bring home the region titles.
On that note, we will be holding practice over spring break
for everyone who is in town. These practices are not mandatory, obviously, with
many of you being out of town. We have heard that many of you will be around
one or two days during the week, and others one or two other days. For that
reason we will hold a practice every day this week, Monday-Friday at 10 AM. If
you are in town for any or all of those days we hope you can make it out. I
know a lot of you are on vacation or out of town. To you, we encourage running
every day, even if it is just a distance run, or on a hotel treadmill. Some of
you will be at a place with a pool, where you can do laps or “pool running”.
Where every you are during the break, be active and be careful; the last thing
we want is for someone to get injured over the break.
The clothing order came in on Friday literally as I was driving
to the JV meet, so I’m sorry I couldn’t get it out to you before the break. I
was pretty irritated that it didn’t come earlier in the day. However, the
hoodies still have not come in. I will be in my classroom tomorrow at 9:30 before
practice to give out some of the clothes if you can make it. The outside door
by my room will be open.
I encourage you to visit our website if you haven’t yet.
There is a lot of good information there. www.bravestrack.blogspot.com
Though the season is still very young, only 4 meets in, and
the bulk of the races are ahead of us, we have had 7 all-time marks for the
boys, and 12 for the girls – the girls team last year has 15 marks, they are at
12 already this year. Those are some impressive numbers. If our girls continue
how they are going they are going to re-write the list. We love seeing that.
Whatever you do this week, have fun, get some of those
nagging injuries to heal up, and let’s return to normal practices next week
ready to make a run at the region title.
Coach Jacobson
