Big Tips to Sam & Jackson Runde and their fine performances at the AAU National Championships earlier this week. Sam started things off with a 20 second personal best (!!!), running 10:36 in the 3000, improved 15 spots on his national ranking and finished 6th Overall for a coveted medal. Both boys then set prs in the 1500 with Sam running 5:05 and young Jackson 5:52. Jackson ran 1:23 for the 400, just 1 second off his lifetime best. They both then ran the 800 and missed their bests by a second each, Sam in 2:33, Jackson in 2:57. Darned proud of these boys and looking forward to working with them again.
Good news, bad news. The bad news: the 9th annual Monster Dash, originally slated for Saturday, October 26 will not be contested this year. Sad as the event hosted our USATF Fall Champs for the last 8 years.
The good news: another event set for the same day is. Received this email earlier this week:
“My name is Zach Harsin, Race Director for the Born & Raced In Nebraska (BRIN) Running Series, and I would like to formally invite
your team to join us for our upcoming USATF Association Cross Country Championship event on October 26th in Ashland, NE. We
have been awarded the honor of hosting the association championship in conjunction with our inaugural Cross Country Classic, and we
couldn’t be happier to be able to extend this offer to you and your team/club to come compete in this all ages event.
As one would expect from a championship cross country race, the event features a challenging course that traverses the hill tops and
woods overlooking the nearby Platte River. The course features sections of mowed grass, wood chipped trails, gravel roads, and short
portions of pavement, before finishing on the main street of the “Old Wild West Town” at the Carol Joy Holling Center.
The championship format will feature both individual places & team scoring with the five fastest times from each team being scored.
Individual medals will be awarded to the top 3 individuals (male/female) & awards will be given to the winning teams (male/female).”
So that’s that. My USATF baby is all grown up.
I saw a fella wearing a “Born and Raced in Nebraska” t-shirt this week. Asked where I could get one of Zach’s technical tops. Was told that the shirt actually is an Ann Ringlein original. I’m trying to figure out the BRIN, LRC, WRN connection, its there somewhere and likely none of my business.
Signed up for the USATF Coaching Clinic. Kyle Clouston and Peter Falcon are also attending. After 30 years in the game I guess I’ll put an official certification next to my creds.
Reprising my role as lead bike for this year’s Omaha Marathon. I’ll be doing the duties for the top men and my dear sweet Linda will serve in the same capacity for the women.
Hanging onions on the fence allows them to dry out before going into the cellar for storage. Broccoli and cauliflower starts now occupy their spots, we’ll harvest those cruciferous cuties in October and November. New bed of cilantro put in yesterday, that will wind up in salsa baby. New beds also prepped and awaiting scallions and winter spinach and chards. Planning is key to a successful garden.
Give us this day…..
Tim Dooling has me figured to a T.
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