Week recap,Hereford dual meet,County relays,next week,rainbow

This week was another fairly bleh week but im feeling optimistic. 28 miles, 5days run with 2 doubles.

The hereford dual meet was typically slow for the first meet of the season. There was a fairly amusing cloudburst 2 minutes before the start so everyone ran all wet. Times were slow across the board- so what obv.

County relays today was good i havent seen the team results they were probably fair. As i said on fbook 12 of the 18 people we had running in the relay have not run xc before this year. The freshmen boys did a solid job. Darin ran very well looking within himself esp on the first one. Really several new people ran super even splits within like 10 seconds from one to the next. The fairly typical result was about 45-60 seconds slower on the second one which is not that surprising for many. Rachel looked very good nice to see and LJ had a 4 minute PR lol and i think 6-7 minutes faster than last year. Jeff solid fast first one slower second. Merritt didnt feel good still ran a good first one and gutted out the second one- we still have to figure out what is going on with her. Morgan ran way better predicatbly than at hereford. Amie couldnt run because her knee hurt. Ashley was fine... i mean perfectly good lol(fortuneatly she doesnt look at this i dont imagine). And quite excitingly Matt made it through the open race with a solid 2325 last mile 725. He has a great positive perspective esp for a HSer. A year of not being able to run/run races can do that ugh.

Anyway on the run this evening I saw an awesome rainbow that lasted for like 3 minutes. I had turned around to add on half a mile and thats prob the only reason I saw it. Then by the time I got out of the trees it was gone the sun had mostly gone down. Cool obv- I should say something about the ephemeral nature of life etc but it was quite good. Maybe given the nature of it was one of the top 3 rainbows i can remember with the WMC one and the one on the way back from Waynesburg. It was briefly a double btw.

Also I was thinking about the plan for next week- goals 42-45 miles 10 runs heres a little plan-
Sun-6
Mon- wo 6 2.5 steady loops(if my ab feels ok it was fine today mosdtly but a little sore when i ran faster)
Tue-3+5
Wed- 5
Thu- 3+5
Fri-wo 6- 10x1min/2min jog
Sat- 3+4

We have 800s on monday then dual meet(mile fast,800 jog then 1:00 on /1:00 off) then barnhart saturday.