Day 8: Slog in the Sun. Also, Rankings
Sunday, August 31st
Run: 5 miles (Classic Putnam Trail) Barefoot drills
This was a painful run. Wearing spikes yesterday was bad for the overall morale of my legs. By the end of this run I was hobbling along because my left achilles was aching pretty badly. And that’s really all there is to say about today. A lot of my Sundays are like this. It’s the one day that we don’t meet as a team to practice or run together and it’s also usually a fairly easy day as far as mileage goes.
Since I have so little to say about my run, let's talk about rankings! In the NCAA D-III Women's Cross-Country preseason poll that was released August 27th, UWEC was ranked 3rd. Which, I have to admit, is pretty sweet. It still feels a little surreal to think that the place where I go to school and run is ranked that high because the people I run with and what we do seems so ordinary. On the other hand, preseason rankings mean exactly squat. Ask any team in the country whether they'd be ranked high to start or place high to finish and you know what the answer would. Of course that doesn't prevent obsessed runners from poring over them and getting into endless debates about how flawed they are. What else would we do in our free time?
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3:06 PM, September 7, 2008
.. Posted by Anonymous
spikes already?
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