You all get tired of me trumpeting how proud I am. You get it almost daily, whether it be our TNB mates, our Wednesday night group, or now with the clients I am working with. Every person that gets out there and puts one foot in front of the other in rapid succession has nothing but my highest esteem.
It is the people that feel the same pride that really are the icing on the cake. The amount of camaraderie and support displayed by our Wednesday group is a true inspiration. Everyone working Together, sharing the same efforts, pushing and cajoling each other to a Greater Good. We all stick around until the last runner is done with the last lap, even this loose knit group understands how important it is to be a part of a Common Vision.
The Very Best of the Good Mates get this too. But it is not mandated that everyone on TNB subscribes to the notion of group unity or fealty to the club and that is OK too. There will always be lone wolves (I was certainly one for most of my running career). I have often said that TNB was not founded to make friends, but rather to become one of the top USATF clubs in the United States. There is no doubting that we have achieved our goal, even with the disparate membership base, and as it turns out they are quite a great group of friendly people to boot. We accept athletes based on desire to improve personally as well as those that are in it for the Team. I’ve stood up for every single member at one point or another, insisting that individual goals are just as important as club goals.
But give me one Matt Schneider or Laura Neel or Jen Viehrig or Ben Shultz (and too many more to name) for any number of aspiring national class athletes and we’ll still have one of the top clubs in the U.S. While we support everyone, we naturally work just a little harder for and with those that buy into the mission of the club. Bottom line is you need only have The Dream to be on The Team.
And we had mates representing well over the weekend. Tim Langdon (2nd, 17:11), Ben Schultz (4th, 17:59), Steve Stender (7th, 1st master, 19:13), Linda Barnhart (1st master, 21:25), and Jody Green (1st 35-39, 22:23) all ran the Boxer 500 yesterday and did very well. Our Wednesday night group was also well represented with John Tully (26:21) scoring hardware. Great job to all that ran in their boxers!
Cory Logsdon was 3rd overall (27:26) at the Atlanticfest 8K in Iowa, this off of marathon training, Cory is looking strong this early fall. Tom Nichols (2nd, 16:09) and Stacy Shaw (1st master 21:01) tackled the Thunder Run 5K in Lincoln.
I hit 60 miles last week, my highest total since April, Giddyup!
Tim Langdon cut quite the figure in his colorful britches.
Is Jody enjoying this more or Linda?
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