The past 48 hours have been confusing and difficult for all of us. The cancellation of the first portion of our season has been heartbreaking news, especially for the seniors. However, as a team it is essential that we remain optimistic, both for the state of our community's health and for the continuation of our track season, and that we do what we can everyday to continue to preapre ourselves for when the time comes. I am writing this post to provide you with all of the information I have concerning the status of our season, the rules we must follow over the next three weeks, and how we will proceed to our tentative re-start date of 4/6.
1.) I will continue to update the training document weekly. While you are not required to practice during this time, I am strongly encouraging athletes to continue training. Many of you have been running consistently since the beginning of Janurary, and we must continue to build this fitness if we hope to compete to the best of our abilities when the season resumes. Of course, safety should be the priority, so please avoid groups and unnecessary exposure.
2.) We can all remain in contact about training questions, updates, successful workouts, etc. You can get ahold of me via the remind app or my email ([email protected]). The goal for me is to use these technological outlets to coach and encourage athletes just as well as if we were meeting in person. I also suggest that you to reach to your teammates as well, to maintain the strong culture of support and passion we have as a distance team. Ask you friend how their 50 minute easy run went, or what their splits were for their repeat K's. While in college I would train at home by myself during the summers, and the support and accountability of a group chat with teammates made it so much easier for me to keep getting in the work.
3.) I CAN NOT encourage or organize meet-ups of any kind. So obviously practices and meet-ups, official or unoffical, with coaches are off the table until at least April 6 (or whatever date CSHAA oficially decides on).
Please reach out to me with any questions you have. Keep your heads up, lean on the support of your teammates, and take care of what you can control each and every day.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” --Theodore Roosevelt
-Coach Marshall
(702) 755-4905
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