Cathedral Track and Field 2020

Good morning,

In all reality, the meet in Mora today probably would have been postponed today due to cold weather. I know that their coach, Chris Goebel, has put a threshold of 45 feel like temperature to compete outside. If you remember, we competed there either last year or the year before in their indoor facility due to cold weather.

So, my thoughts for “competing” today are up to you. Just know that I have adjusted my plans because of the weather temperatures for the varsity sprinters, jumpers, hurdlers, and vaulters to have a speed practice on Thursday and Friday of this week. We’ll go short sprints on Thursday and longer sprints on Friday. I just want to have better conditions for you to compete hard.

If you choose to compete today, do the same mental preparation and physical competition that we have done the past 2 simulated meets.

If you choose to wait on that, do the following:
Get your muscles warmed up properly (as usual). Go outside and run a handful of 40-60 meter sprints. I’ll leave that number up to you, but focus on your running form on each one. Really think about each foot strike, arm motion, body position (nice and tall), sprinters butt kick, knee drive, ankle dorsi-flexion and hip angle (like when we run with the sticks over our head).
After a cool down jog, come back inside and find a video on body weight only exercises and follow along with that along with stretching of course.

• Also, I plan to have Zoom meetings with you this week. Pay attention to your school email. I will invite small groups of no more than 5 at a time. They won’t be long meetings (maybe 10-15 minutes), but enough to see how you are doing. I understand that your teachers may have meetings set up, so I will set ours up accordingly. I know that time slots that us teachers have to work with.