Post by L Rock on Sept 7, 2008 15:38:49 GMT -5
Track Season is far off, but not as far off as it was yesterday. Dan's Notes at the bottom.
If anyone at all looks, acts, hints, or even has body movement that makes them look like a Track Athlete in any of your classes, Now is the time to snag them!
We need incoming freshman to be familiar with a track style prior to the season to really kick it off the ground this year from top to bottom. If there is anyone who is unsure about spring sports and feels they would be interested in sprinting/jumping send them to talk to me, I would be more than happy to explain to them the amazing social and physical and mental and ethical and political and tutorial aspects of a) joining track and field b) committing to track and field as soon as possible c) being in shape prior- post- and during winter break.
Freshman and Sophomores, I am fairly certain that most of you will continue to run mileage into your spring season and I am in no way trying to take away from your Cross Country training or call upon the wrath of Coach Quick. I am merely asking that, if you see someone who is leaning toward track, ask them to come and talk to me.
Martel Halloran always said that he felt the Sprinters and Jumpers seemed a wholly different team than the distance group in track, and in light of losing some vital 4x4 runners, and even if none were lost at all Track is a team as much as Cross Country is a team and we need just as much unity in the spring as in the Fall. We have been making Headway, I believe (though I have always been good friends with the guys on this team), yet there is still room for improvement. We need our relays to trust each other as much as our teammates trust each other and rely on each other and refuse to die on each other in Cross Country.
Lacking that attitude during the spring seems like a major part of the reason we lack the consistency in the spring that we have maintained in the fall.
Furthermore, speaking for my own selfish reasons, we seem to be a school who lacks the understanding of how seriously awesome pole vaulting is. But that is just a stray thought.
The reason for this post is that, during the winter (during XC Polar Bear). The Track Team will be launching the Third Actual First Official Eskimo Runners Club. Lead by Ed Anderson and myself this club needs to get off the ground and become a noticeable Winter Track outlet for members of the Track Team.
Those members not in a Winter Sport, most of which choose to embed their cheeks firmly into the safety of their couch cushions, will not feel as if there is nothing, no motivation, for them to be active, will have the opportunity to succeed.
Telly has moved on to College, and next year Eddie and I will as well (we hope) and with that graduation the idea will die unless it is rooted in the base of this school This Year. I have seen the hours, the miles, the footwork that each and every one of you has put in to your training and I have seen (and felt) the lazy sprinter attitude and it pains me to think that we are letting you guys down by not working every ounce as hard as you are.
Track does not have the prestige that Mr. Miller speaks of with respect to the community. It should. It could.
DAN'S NOTES.
Send People interested in Track to come and Talk to me, Dan LaRocca.
If you don't know who I am, I'm the guy on the cross country team who tries his best. If that doesn't narrow it down, God Bless the Palatine Cross Country team.
Track needs unity, for the past couple of years we have been a compilation as opposed to a team. Telly always felt it was like two smaller teams in one. This must change.
Toodles I'm going to go make ramen noodles.
If anyone at all looks, acts, hints, or even has body movement that makes them look like a Track Athlete in any of your classes, Now is the time to snag them!
We need incoming freshman to be familiar with a track style prior to the season to really kick it off the ground this year from top to bottom. If there is anyone who is unsure about spring sports and feels they would be interested in sprinting/jumping send them to talk to me, I would be more than happy to explain to them the amazing social and physical and mental and ethical and political and tutorial aspects of a) joining track and field b) committing to track and field as soon as possible c) being in shape prior- post- and during winter break.
Freshman and Sophomores, I am fairly certain that most of you will continue to run mileage into your spring season and I am in no way trying to take away from your Cross Country training or call upon the wrath of Coach Quick. I am merely asking that, if you see someone who is leaning toward track, ask them to come and talk to me.
Martel Halloran always said that he felt the Sprinters and Jumpers seemed a wholly different team than the distance group in track, and in light of losing some vital 4x4 runners, and even if none were lost at all Track is a team as much as Cross Country is a team and we need just as much unity in the spring as in the Fall. We have been making Headway, I believe (though I have always been good friends with the guys on this team), yet there is still room for improvement. We need our relays to trust each other as much as our teammates trust each other and rely on each other and refuse to die on each other in Cross Country.
Lacking that attitude during the spring seems like a major part of the reason we lack the consistency in the spring that we have maintained in the fall.
Furthermore, speaking for my own selfish reasons, we seem to be a school who lacks the understanding of how seriously awesome pole vaulting is. But that is just a stray thought.
The reason for this post is that, during the winter (during XC Polar Bear). The Track Team will be launching the Third Actual First Official Eskimo Runners Club. Lead by Ed Anderson and myself this club needs to get off the ground and become a noticeable Winter Track outlet for members of the Track Team.
Those members not in a Winter Sport, most of which choose to embed their cheeks firmly into the safety of their couch cushions, will not feel as if there is nothing, no motivation, for them to be active, will have the opportunity to succeed.
Telly has moved on to College, and next year Eddie and I will as well (we hope) and with that graduation the idea will die unless it is rooted in the base of this school This Year. I have seen the hours, the miles, the footwork that each and every one of you has put in to your training and I have seen (and felt) the lazy sprinter attitude and it pains me to think that we are letting you guys down by not working every ounce as hard as you are.
Track does not have the prestige that Mr. Miller speaks of with respect to the community. It should. It could.
DAN'S NOTES.
Send People interested in Track to come and Talk to me, Dan LaRocca.
If you don't know who I am, I'm the guy on the cross country team who tries his best. If that doesn't narrow it down, God Bless the Palatine Cross Country team.
Track needs unity, for the past couple of years we have been a compilation as opposed to a team. Telly always felt it was like two smaller teams in one. This must change.
Toodles I'm going to go make ramen noodles.
