Districts is almost here!

Throughout the season so far you should've learned how to run your events and how everything works. In two weeks, districts will be here. So to prepare for it, you need to train very very hard EVERY day! Districts determines whether or not you go to regionals and states. Keep up the hard work and keep trying your hardest in any race that you haev left and in practice!

Train hard this whole week

This week you NEED to train hard! It is critical that you do. As you saw earlier, this meet determines whether or not you make it to Disney. This means that you need to push yourself to all your limits. By doing this, your race times will improve and your body will become used to working hard everyday. When it's race day, you'll see that all that practice payed off.

Saturday = huge race!

On Saturday is the Crusader Invitational. This meet determines whether or not you will be going to the Disney Invite. Only the best go to Disney to compete against eachother. You don't need to pressure yourself but you do need to eat extremely healthy and work your butt off from today till Thursday since Friday is recovery. Start mentally preparing yourself in what your goals are for your events and start asking your coaches for advice. If they're clueless, then go online and do some research.

Invitationals

On Saturday you will be having another relay track meet. This one is very important. No it won't allow you to go to any place special if you do very good but it is an invitational which will be posted on flrunners.com. Once it's posted, people can see your good and bad times and colleges can see them as well. You really want to impress the colleges more than the people and if you don't care to about running in college, then just try your best anyways so you don't look bad to the people.

What now?

So far you've had about 3 track meets. By now, you should've gotten the idea of how everything works and how you should be running. The next meet is on Saturday. It's a relay meet but you should still have set goals. The next two meets are extremely important and you need to try your hardest. If you do well, you can qualify for a Disney invitational. In this meet, only the top people go. So continue to work hard!

Today's the big day!

Are you ready for your track meet?? There really isn't a lot to it. All you need to do is prepare yourself mentally and you're set to go. Yes you should be eating correctly, hydrating, and getting rest but when you get onto that track, the only thing that matters is that you've mentally prepared yourself. Time will feel very slow and dragging but that will only happen if your mind tells you that and you actually believe it. Once you believe what your mind is telling you, then its either downhill from there or you suck it up and win.

First track meet tomorrow!

Your first track meet is tomorrow! Don't be nervous. Just act excited and before you know it, it'll be over. This track meet isn't going to be like last year. Last year the first 3 meets were just relays. This meet will be a regular meet with all the usual events. Remember to eat lots of pasta and to just have fun!