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I heard the times from Michael this evening. Was that the same course as the Bradley CC course? It must have been about 2:30 long. Better luck next week. By the by, if you haven't seen the Chattanooga Times Free Press and their coverage of the impending cc season don't waste your money. They do pick Jackie Pickel to be the number two girl in the area and the Bradley girls to be the number two team for the girls. For boys Baylor, McCallie, and CCS are picked to be the top three in our area. Oliver is picked as the top male runner.

I guess I didnt' make myself clear. We'd like to race you and everyone else on October 9th and win the division title AGAIN. I won't race the Bradley course because it's dangerous. Therefore, I'm disappointed that we won't win the league title. Yes, it's my choice where the team runs and who runs. I'm disappointed that the race is where it was last year. That was the only date our top seven will have free to race a league meet. Clear enough? How did you folks do at the 5K this weekend? Or is that your SUPER STRATEGY to keep it secret?

I think that course is a serious injury waiting to happen. Two weeks before region is not the time that I want my best hurt. I was very disappointed we weren't going to be able to run our best guys in any league meets, but that was the only day we could. We just won't run on that course.

Anyone in the middle Tennessee area or Knoxville that has is aware of or hosting a race on October 9, please post. We would also be interested in a three or four way meet. All help is appreciated.

I stayed home and ran with the teams. Coach Phelps took care of everything for boys and girls. We won't be able to send our best to any league meets other than Optimist, so I guess we won't be competing for the A-division crown. Best of luck to all this year. We'll still see you at the meets, just not with our best guys.

Thanks. We'll see you there.

Can you please call Coach Cotton and post today sometime. I would really appreciate the help. I e-mailed and got no response and we haven't received any notification. We can't defend our A Division title if we don't schedule opponents.

Honestly, they're way ahead of where I thought they'd be. The times in the 8k don't really reflect what we did in the three weeks before the race. I thought we'd be much more fatigued, or at least look that way. Thanks for the kind words. See you soon at the races.

Also, that certainly wasn't meant as a jab at Bradley. If either of our teams should have made the rankings based on last year's returnees or performances, it should have been you guys. I just can't wait to race some of these teams. Good luck again. I can't wait to see you guys race. We'll run our region versus any other any day. I think we'd do pretty well.

I'd put our region against any in the state. According to the rankings, neither of our teams would even qualify for state if we competed in the Knoxville area. We'll see. Good luck. I like the added motivation.

It's amazing to me that the team that finished 5th in the state meet and lost only one runner to graduation isn't even ranked. Our region performed better than any other last year, and we're overlooked once again. That's okay though. Guys better be ready to run is all I can say.

Twenty-seven:fifty, Michael. Don't short-change yourself.

Mike ran 27:18, Michael 27:4?, Chris 28:56, Suhmer 29:?, our five was low 31's. Last year Tray ran 27:54 I believe, so Mike and Michael appear to be ahead. Suhmer and Mike had two pretty tough days mixed into the mileage this week, and it wiped Suhmer out pretty badly. That goes to show where Mike is right now also. He's going to definitely be one to watch this year. He went through three in about 15:50 trying to hold some back for the last two miles.

Mike might have a point. Much of our sport is internal. You have to love it and have a tremendous desire to do well. It's become fairly competitive to make our top 7, so no one wants anyone else to get ahead. Hence, they train fairly religiously. We're pretty lucky we're at the point we are with our team. The hard part, convincing runners to run and train, is over. We all love our sport and enjoy the training. This sport really is fun if it's done right. Best of luck to all this season.

McMinn won't be there. The Cherokees won't race again until September 13 at UTC. Mike, Chris, and Michael ran well at Pigeon Forge last night. We've got six weeks until we open.

Tomorrow is the first official day of practice. What will you do differently than you did this week? I guess our season has officially started.

It should be just about time for the pre-season rankings to be posted on Tom's site. Just a few more days and we've made it through the off-season. Is everyone ready?

I'll add another to keep us going. One of my favorites is catch-the-leader or an Indian Run. A solid line of runners about 5 meters apart, or further if you want, take turns with the last person in line catching the leader. This is a great fartlek and a great workout. All of the runners need to be in similar condition and it's best if the line doesn't slow too dramatically. We did it for 10 miles once last summer. It was fun, just a change of pace, and it's a tremendous workout.

Thanks for the enlightenment. He had some fantastic times. I'd like to see Andrew, or anyone else for that matter, with some times like that in Tennessee. It's what our sport needs.

What workout have you had the most fun running? This workout may not be the toughest or the best to improve your conditioning, just the most fun.

Mike Buckley is also a senior at McMinn.

Where do you go to school, BriC? Just curious. Also, I like the "I wanna ring."

I fixed it. If we keep this up, we'll figure out all of them.

In order of finish place: 5 6 9 11 - ? 12 - ? 14 15,16,17 - all ?'s 18 20 - ? If anyone else knows for sure about any of these question marks, please feel free to post them.