May 1, 2018
Welcome back to the Blog!
On this week’s blog I am going to give you a recap of last week’s meet at Miami University. I am also going to talk about the end of the season and things that we as a team are learning and getting ready for.
The Redhawk Invitational was held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. It was a great meet with good competition and good weather, Praise the Lord! It has been a while since we had a nice weather meet. Outdoor track is tough with that because you can be in great shape but the weather can keep you from running a good time. But, thankfully that was not the case at Miami, lots of people ran PR’s.
As I have mentioned before in the blog as usual our throwers threw very well. Also, we had a good day on the track, Gatchell won the 800 meters with a 1:53, Trent got second in the 1500 meters displaying his speed with a 3:56. Luke Bredeson ran 9:45 in the steeple which was a solid PR.
This was the last meet before Conference and it was a good confidence booster going into conference. This weekend at conference it becomes less about time and more about places. You have to run to get a good position and get points not just to run a fast time. This adds a lot of mental challenges to the running. While you are running you need to be aware of what is going on around you and make sure you are in a good position in the race. I personally like running these type of races better.
The G-MAC Championships start this Thursday and will go until Saturday. This is fun and interesting because this week is finals week here on campus. So, on top of balancing finals, sleep, eating, and staying mentally sane, we are adding the biggest track meet of the year! It is fun and interesting because it is a challenge. How good can you be when you have to balance all this? Will you do the school work early and get ahead to make sure you get to bed on time? Looking at finals this week has helped me stay positive and focused. I see it as a challenge to complete. I want to balance my finals well and perform at my best.
Life can be that way sometimes just when things seem to get bad something comes up and it gets worse. Just when you don’t think you can cram anything else into your schedule something big comes up that needs your attention and you have to do it. Thinking of these as challenges or tests can help keep a positive mental attitude.
I hope you have a great week, I will be back one last time next week for the last blog of the year! Can you believe how fast it went?!!??!
REMEMBER ITS ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
April 26, 2018
Welcome back to this week’s blog!
I am a little bit late on this blog but that is on purpose. I wanted to write about the track banquet and the Golden Jacket Awards that took place this week.
The track banquet is a fun night where the coaches recognize all the hard work that the athletes have put in this year. Coach Bolender reads through every athlete’s name and they each receive a different gift based on what year you are. Freshmen receive a little key chain that says Cedarville Track & Field. Sophomores receive a metal water bottle. Juniors receive a pad folio. And seniors receive a letter opener handmade by Coach King himself and a pen.
This is a fun night full of good food and memories from the season. I want to take a minute and just list out our seniors on the team and recognize all the hard work they have put in.
Austin Ballentine - Throws
Josiah Bernard - Sprints
Daniel Michalski - Distance
Mason Moser - Sprints/Hurdles
Tucker Rhodes - Throws/Javelin
I look up to all these guys, they helped create the atmosphere on the team and have encouraged me through a lot. I remember Joe Bernard helping me work on my form, even though I am a distance runner. I remember running the G-MAC winning distance medley relay last year with Tucker before he switched to throwing. I remember staying up late with Daniel watching track videos and just talking track. I could keep going but you get the point. These seniors have had an impact on my life and many others as well. Although they may have not all been captains, no matter what, when you are a senior you are a leader and people look up to you. Thanks again seniors for all the hard work you have put in! Keep working hard!
The day after our track banquet was the Golden Jacket Awards. This was the first time the Athletic Department has ever done something like this. In years prior there was always an awards night just for seniors. But, this year it was brought to a whole new level! The goal was to do our own version of the ESPY’S - a big flashy awards show to recognize the seniors and just have a lot of fun. All the sports teams were invited and parents of the seniors were invited as well. I included this picture so you could have an idea of just how official this thing was.
It was a great night, all the seniors got called up on stage and recognized, there was also individual awards given out and then some song and dance numbers. It was a fun show and I can’t wait until next year when it all happens again.
Although we had all these banquets and awards nights, THE SEASON ISN’T OVER! We are winding down but we still have two more meets left. This weekend we will be running at Miami University again and then the week after that it is CONFERENCE TIME!! G-MAC!! G-MAC!! We are very excited and looking forward to conference and showing our improvement.
Please pray for time and energy over these last couple days. It is finals week next week and we as a team have a ton to get done. I hope you have a good week and keep attacking your goals and working hard in whatever God has put on your plate!
REMEMBER IT’S ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!
April 17, 2018
Welcome to the blog!
Thanks for joining me today on this edition of the blog. It was a great week here in Cedarville. The weather was actually nice for once in a long time. The nice weather made training very enjoyable and a little easier. Sometimes weather can play a bigger part in the mental side of things. When the sun is shining and it’s nice out, you just feel better and are happier so it can be a little easier to push harder on runs or in workouts.
I went on that tangent about weather and running to contrast that to the conditions of our last meet. At Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on Saturday the 14th - it was 60 degrees and pouring RAIN! It was a DELUGE!! Granted we did get lucky, it didn’t thunderstorm so nothing got canceled. But, nothing is more depressing than a cold, wet track meet. You just sit outside and try to stay dry, but you don’t. Then you run and get soaked and then you are cold. Then you get on a bus all wet and sit there. It just isn’t that much fun. But, through all that you still have to run a race. You still have to somehow find a way to put all that behind you and push through a race.
That is exactly what a lot of guys did this past weekend. Even though the conditions were not ideal we had some pretty solid times from the meet. The first performance I want to highlight is Ethan Sullivan who tied his PR in the 5K of 15:10, even though his shoes both came untied! It was funny to hear Ethan tell the story - he made it sound very dramatic. After the race I showed him how a boy scout would tie their shoe so that it would never come undone.
I want to shine the spotlight on our throwers because they have been killing it lately. With the addition of Coach Gwinn this year the throwers have been winning left and right and setting PR’s. Jonathan Scouten set a huge PR this weekend in the hammer and got second overall only to our own Lane Hluch! That’s right they went 1-2! Way to go throwers keep it up.
That will do it for this blog, hope you enjoyed it keep working hard in whatever you are training for/dealing with!
REMEMBER ITS ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
April 12, 2018
Welcome back to the Blog!
This week’s blog will not be very exciting because nothing happened! The meet we were supposed to have got cancelled due to cold weather. This weather has been crazy, a lot of the runners are still training indoors because it is just too cold. So, I was hoping to have a meet to update all of you on but I don’t so, I will talk about the only exciting thing that happened this week, THE TORNADO.
That’s right a tornado touched down during last Tuesday’s practice. For the distance runners we had a workout planned on the outdoor track. We were getting warmed up and Coach O comes out in his truck and tells us all to get inside because of lighting. Once we all got inside we started the workout on the indoor track. We completed one set and then got word about the tornado and everyone in the gym was forced into the hallway in the center of the Callan Athletic Center. This hallway apparently is the tornado shelter for the whole building. So, all of the sports team were pushed into this hallway for an HOUR! It was good bonding. After the hour wait, the tornado passed and we were able to return to things as normal. There was a decent amount of damage in different towns, I know Clifton got hit pretty bad.
Looking forward to this week as we have a meet at Miami of Ohio. This will be a fun and competitive meet. Most of the team is excited to race because having the week off made us mentally and physically ready.
So, big things to come this weekend.
REMEMBER IT'S ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
April 3, 2018
Hello! Welcome to the Blog for this week!
The big news last week, was our home meet that we hosted on Saturday. Home meets are always fun because the travel is short and lots of friends get to come out and watch. The meet this year was the best it has been in a while. Some of the schools we compete against in our conference were there and made it pretty competitive. It was also kind of cool that both Ohio State’s club team and Michigan’s club team came to the meet so we had that rivalry there.
The weather made it a tough meet. It was very windy, what else can you expect in Ohio. The wind was brutal on the back stretch but on the home stretch of the track you were pushed the whole way.
I normally try to talk more about the team and big things that happened for the team over the meet but in today’s blog I am going to take some time and talk about myself. I ran the 1,500 meters at this meet and boy was it an interesting race. The first thing that went wrong during the race was that after they shot the gun, the timer didn’t start so they had to call us back after we had already run 100 meters and start the race over again. When that happens at a meet you just have to ignore it. Put it out of your head and move on. So, I got refocused and ready for the second start. This time the timer did start and the race was underway. I made several mistakes during this race. The first was making the wrong move at the wrong time.
At 200 meters into the race, so into the race I heard that we were one second off the pace I wanted to run. So, I made a huge move out from the pack to move up to the front and push the pace. The only problem was I didn’t realize that there was a guy right next to me. So, as I made my move to the outside I ran right into my teammate Alec’s leg. Before I knew what had happened I had hit the track. After sliding for a foot or two. I leaped right back up and made my second mistake of the race.
After you fall in a race you have lots of adrenaline. You are embarrassed, you are in last, you don’t really know what happened. I was panicking and very mad that somebody had gotten in my way and tripped me, even though it was completely my fault. So, what did I do? I sprinted by everyone and took the lead of the whole race. Yup, that's right, from dead last to first in the next 100 meters. This was a big mistake because it was so much energy that I exerted to get into the lead after taking a fall. After I took the lead I made my third and final mistake of the race.
After leading the race for about 200 meters, I slowly started to die. That huge surge I had made to take the lead was now coming back and biting me in the butt. I let every single person in the race pass me. I finished last in my heat with a time that was not good.
I hope you can look at this and laugh with me (or at me) because all though it was stupid and although didn’t do good I learned an awful lot. I learned that patience is important in a race. If one split is a second off that is no need to freak out like I did. I learned that you can’t make big moves to the outside without checking who is around you first. Most races pack up at the beginning so you have to be careful of all the people around you. I learned that falling really hurts, I will save you from looking at all my scrapes but let me just tell you that the track can rip you up.
Although I didn’t do very well the whole meet was not a failure. Kevin Knox and Tommy Ansiel both did great. Kevin destroyed the javelin and won by nine meters. Tommy won the pole vault and jumped over 16’ for the first time in college. And the guys won the whole meet. There were lots of positives to take away from the meet and it was a good meet overall.
Thanks so much for reading the blog this week. I hope you enjoyed it and that you have a good week. Keep pursuing excellence in all that you do. As a team we want to get better every day, the G-MAC Championship is just around the corner with only a month left.
REMEMBER IT’S ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
March 25, 2018
Welcome back to the Blog!
The blog has been on reprieve because of the break between indoor and outdoor track. So, this blog will give you a little insight into what happened during those couple weeks without competition and a full behind-the-scenes look at our first outdoor meet at Emory University in Georgia. Enjoy!
Remember back to the last blog where I talked about the G-MAC Indoor Championships and how it didn’t go very well for us. We finished 6th overall in the meet. This left the team disappointed. The loss at G-MAC made the team look at our training and ask what needs to change? Over the past couple of weeks the whole team has been working hard. Without competition it allows us to train harder and purely focus on getting better.
I am proud to say that the first outdoor meet was a huge success. We won the meet! Lots of hard work paid off for us at this meet and it was a great way to kick off the season, and get the ball rolling.
The trip to the meet started last Wednesday night at around 9:45 p.m. We started to board the buses headed to Atlanta, Georgia for the Emory Invitational. Yes, that is correct 9:45 p.m., not a.m., it was dark and all of us wanted to go to bed. We took off that late so that we could have more time in Georgia. The bus ride was rather brutal. First off, it is just straight up hard to sleep on a bus. The turns and bumps and uncomfortable seats just don’t condone to good sleep. But, add on top of that extreme temperatures, no sleep happens. The bus we took was rather poorly built in that the windows weren’t insulated so they were soaking wet with condensation. Also, the bus had two heaters and they were positioned in the middle of the bus. It was rather cold when we left Ohio that night so we had the heat on. The only problem was the seats right on top of the heaters were about 100 degrees and then the seats furthest away felt like -30 degrees. It was horrible at the time but looking back rather hilarious. Half the bus was freezing and clutching any scrap of clothing, or human they could to keep warm. And the other half was dripping sweat, taking off jackets and sweat pants because they were right on top of the heater. Although it was uncomfortable we did make it to Georgia safe and sound.
The first day was spent at a park called Stone Mountain. We arrived at the park at about 9 a.m., wobbling out of the van with baggy eyes and morning breath. Stone Mountain Park is a big lump of granite outside Atlanta that was about a mile hike up. The view was really cool from the top. It was a nice morning, we had breakfast and dinner picnic style by the buses. I included a picture from Stone Mountain so you can get a better feel for it.
At about 2 p.m. on Thursday after spending the day exploring Stone Mountain, we packed up camp and headed to the track. Emory is a nice school, it is a couple miles outside Atlanta so the big school is packed into a small area. So, there are lots of high rise buildings around the campus and then nestled inside all the buildings is their beautiful track. After a quick practice we headed off to dinner and then to the hotels to get some homework done and go to bed.
Friday came and it was beautiful weather to run in, 64 degrees and sunny. That is the main reason we go south for a meet like this just for the weather. When you are comfortable, not too hot, not too cold, it just takes away another variable that could mess with your race. There were lots of highlights from the meet on Friday and you can check them all out by going to the meet recap on our Yellow Jacket website.
Saturday was another beautiful day of competition, about 74 degrees and cloudy. We came into the meet with good spirits, coming from lousy Ohio weather to warm temps and sunshine really can pick up the morale. It was another great day with lots of highlights and personal bests. The recap for the Saturday meet is also on our website but I just want to point out a couple performances. The first one was Tommy Ansiel and his winning pole vault of 4.85 meters or 15’11’’. That jump gives Tommy a provisional mark for the national meet. Tommy has been jumping well and teaching me a lot about pole vault. He was talking to me about all the different poles that he has and the strategy of choosing the right pole for the right jump. I am fascinated by all the technique that goes in to pole vault. Good work Tommy! I hope you keep jumping higher and higher. The next performance I want to point out is Ethan Gatchell running 1:52.9 in the 800 meters. This was a PR for Gatchell, his first time under 1:53. Gatchell works very hard and has been running very consistent this year. To start off his season with a PR shows big things to come.
As I said earlier, the meet was a huge success, I could go on and on about good performances but we would be here a long time. Winning our first meet was a lot of fun and encouraging. The people on the team who are working hard and who are putting in the effort are seeing the rewards from that. This meet got the ball rolling for the team and now we just have to keep the momentum going.
Thanks for reading the blog, I enjoy writing it and hope that you enjoy it as well. I hope that you have a good week!
Remember It’s All for the Glory of God!
February 27, 2018
Welcome to this week's edition of the Cedarville Track & Field Blog!
The best way to tell the story of this year’s indoor Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Championships is to look back at previous G-MAC’s and see how the meet has changed.
Every year the G-MAC changes. The conference is young, only officially started in 2013. The first year the conference held an indoor championship was 2015 and the Cedarville men won. In 2016 the conference only got smaller with Central State leaving the conference. In 2016 the Cedarville men won the meet by over 100 points. 2017 was a pivotal year in the conference with the addition of more schools, which brought more competition. This was the first year the Cedarville men did not win the championship, we lost to Malone by 11 points.
That brings us to 2018, another pivotal year in the conference. This year brought more teams and much more competition. This year Hillsdale, Walsh, Findlay, and many others were added to the conference. The Cedarville men finished 6th overall in the conference.
I say all this and brought you through a little history not to show off that we used to be the top dogs of the G-MAC. I just wanted to show how much the G-MAC has changed and that it is still a growing conference. In fact next year they are going to add more teams. That is fun and exciting, we don’t really know what each year is going to be like. In high school when it came to the conference meet you knew which teams you were going to race and it was just the fact who had the best team. Now with such a young conference that is still growing the meet is different every year.
The addition of more teams brings a lot better competition. For example in 2015 Forrest Thayer won the mile at G-MAC in 4:32. This year a 4:32 would have finished 16th overall in the G-MAC. Good competition is great, you run faster and can push yourself harder. I love running against people that are faster than me. I ran the mile at conference this weekend. I was seeded at 4:33 and I knew the fastest person in my heat was a 4:25. So, I put myself right behind the leader and just hung on to him. He paced Luke Bredeson and I to our fastest full mile in a long time with both of us getting under 4:30. That is great thing about good competition at a meet, it can help bring you to your full potential.
As my old coach would put it, "Winning is better than not winning". Obviously it’s no fun finishing 6th in your conference, we want to WIN! But, it isn’t that big of an accomplishment when you win it by 100 points. No longer are the days where winning G-MAC is something that will be easy. It is something we as a team are going to have to work like crazy for. I am excited about the turn that our conference has taken and can’t wait to keep working harder and harder and get better and better as a team. How sweet will that conference championship be when we have had to fight for it.
Those are my thoughts. I loved the meet. I got to meet lots of new people from other teams and run a fast time. I hope that everyone on the team doesn’t get discouraged by this and sees it as a call to excellence. A wake up call that what we are doing now is not enough. G-MAC is getting better, are we?
I challenge the audience the same way. Are you getting better? Or are you comfortable? Galatians 5:13 was the verse of the day a couple days ago and I loved it!
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"For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another."
Thank the Lord that we are FREE! Free from sin and free from condemnation! We should live in that freedom. But, are we going to use that freedom for the flesh and become comfortable/soft? Or are we going to use that freedom to rise above and serve others wherever we are.
I hope that this can be encouraging to everyone and that you continue to strive to get better at whatever you do. Here on the Cedarville Men’s Track & Field team we are striving to be better at running, running, throwing stuff, and loving God and others.
Thanks for reading through this rant. I hope you have a good day!
Remember it’s ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
February 20, 2018
Welcome back to the blog folks!
This has been a great week, and I can’t wait to share it with you!
All this past week we were preparing for the NCCAA meet. That is the National Christian College Athletics Association, as we were hosting the national meet this year! The meet is already a big deal but having to host it adds a whole bunch more to the to do list.
Most of the team started winding down training this week because it is our second to last week. All we have left for most of the team is the G-MAC meet next week. So, naturally towards the end of the season you start to tone down training to rest up for big performances. For those of you who don’t know this is called tapering. You taper off your training towards the end of that season.
So, for the distance runners that meant only one workout this week and some easy running! I enjoy this time of the season because most of the work has already been done, the workouts are shorter and faster, which means more fun in my books. This is also the time of the season where all the training is paying off - it has all focused around this time of the season so people can get big PR’s.
As a whole NCCAA’s went well for the team, we placed third overall and had three individual national champions! Ethan Gatchell won the 800 meters, Tommy Ansiel won the pole vault, and Trent Classen won the 3000 meters. There is a full article on the website that gives more information about all those guys and many more performances.
One performance that stood out to me was Lane Hluch in the weight throw. Lane is one of my good buddies and he works really hard and it was awesome to see him PR by two feet!!! That’s awesome Lane! His throw of 53 feet even puts him at third all-time for Cedarville! Keep up the good work Lane.
I also wanted to point out the DMR from NCCAA’s. For those of you that don’t know DMR stands for Distance Medley Relay, which consists of a 1200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters and finishes with a 1600 meters. The relay team was myself, on the 1200m leg, Chase Gruet on the 400m leg, Andrew Sholl on the 800m leg, and then Luke Bredeson on the 1600m leg. I don’t point this relay out just because I was on the team, I point it out because I think we ran a solid time and have potential. As a team we ran 10:32 and got third overall. Now compared to the DMR team we had last year that ran 9:50 we are definitely a long ways off, but we have potential to drop a lot of time! Luke ran a great mile leg splitting a 4:26! That was a great race for Luke, I was pumped to see him get under 4:30. I like relays because it makes the race less about yourself and gives you more to push for. When the pain starts to settle in during my leg I think about my teammates and not letting them down. Relays always help me push a little harder.
But enough of me rambling, thanks for reading this week’s blog! I hope you enjoyed it, stay tuned for next week as we head off to Hillsdale College in Michigan for the G-MAC Championships!!!! It will be a very competitive meet but hopefully that will bring some fast times.
Have a good week and remember it is all for the Glory of God!
February 13, 2018
Welcome to the Blog!
It has been a great week here at Cedarville, and this blog gives me a chance to reflect on that week and how we, as a team, got better.
Starting this week, coming off the busy one the team had last week, was tough. Coach Bo gave the whole team Monday off. But, everyone knows that just because you don’t have practice doesn’t mean you don’t put in work. So, naturally the XC guys did a workout. Many other sprinters and field athletes were at the field house also working hard. Tuesdays are always started with our long team meeting in the classroom. These meetings are very important to make sure we all know the details necessary for the travel that weekend. Also, at these Tuesday meetings our Chaplain Larry will give us a quick word of encouragement. Wednesday was just a normal practice. Thursday the first group left for Grand Valley. This group included all the people running in the Friday meet and some extras, of which I was one. We left campus at around 2:15 p.m. on Thursday in our small Athletic Bus. The rest of the team had practice on Thursday and then loaded the bus on Friday to meet us at Grand Valley.
Grand Valley is a special meet, it is a sweet atmosphere, sweet track, and normally brings sweet times. So, naturally a lot of people get excited for this trip. The Friday meet is harder to get into with strict qualifying times. On the guys side we had Dan go in the mile and Ethan Gatchell in the 800, then all the 5K guys Ethan Sullivan, Alec Weinhold, Avery Traffie, and Ford McElroy. The meet started out decently with Alec and Ethan running great times in the 5K. Unfortunately, Dan had to scratch from the mile due to a foot injury. That was really tough for Dan because this was going to be a fast field in the mile and he was excited to race. Dan is on crutches now and we are not sure yet what is up with his foot. So, keep Dan in your prayers as he gets through this injury. For more info about the meet check out the article on the website.
One of the best parts about this trip is staying at the church! Instead of paying a lot of money and getting hotels we just rent out this church with an attached school. We cater in dinner on Friday night and the lovely people at the church make us breakfast on Saturday morning. It is a lot of fun because we hang out in the gym and play a lot of basketball.
The Saturday meet is open so there are no qualifying times so the rest of the team runs. Again it was a great meet with both highs and lows, go check out the article for more info about results. I will point out one highlight and that was Trent Classen getting that win in the 3000 meters on Saturday in a fast time of 8:33. This was a break out race for Trent. Trent transferred last fall from Nebraska University. He was a beast runner at Nebraska and we are pumped to have him on our team. Unfortunately, he never got to put on the Cedarville singlet to race until indoor track. So, after struggling with lots of injuries throughout XC he finally put together a great race! Congrats Trent! Can’t wait to see the times keep dropping.
Thanks for reading this week’s blog. Looking forward to this week, we have NCCAA’s this Friday and Saturday at home! It is going to be a great meet and lots of fun. I will talk to you next week!
Remember it’s all for the Glory of God.
February 6, 2018
Welcome to this week’s blog!
It was a busy weekend for the track team, hosting and running in the college meet on Friday, having 40+ perspective athletes come visit, hosting a huge high school meet on Saturday, and the Super Bowl on Sunday! (I saved all my homework until after the Super Bowl)
Just wanted to take a second and thank our awesome coaches and all the volunteers who helped with the meet. This meet is a huge fund raiser for our program and allows us to go on a lot of the trips we take. So, thank you for the time and effort they put into the meet.
The meet as a whole went really well, decent times and finishing second in the team score was pretty solid. One of the big highlights that I want to talk about wasn’t even from our meet. Dan Michalski went all alone to a separate meet at the University of Akron on Saturday with one goal, run a fast time in the mile. That he did, Dan clocked a new PR of 4:04.66, this time is also a new school record! Congrats Dan, that is mighty fast, that time puts him 10th in the nation right now.
The other highlight I wanted to mention was freshman Tommy Ansiel vaulting 15-11.75 which is an NCAA provisional mark! Tommy’s jump also put him in first position on the G-MAC leader board, those points will be very important at the conference meet.
Hosting the meet is special because it is one of the few times a lot of our friends from campus can come support us. A lot of track meets are hours away and not easy for friends to get too. But, when the meet is right in our field house it allows a lot of friends and family to come out to the meet. I appreciate that my friends came out to watch me run, it makes me want to run a little faster because you want to look good for your friends. Thank you to all the friends and family that were able to make it out to the meet on Friday it meant a lot.
That will be a wrap on this week’s blog! Another busy week lined up for the Jackets as we head off for GRAND VALLEY STATE this weekend! This is a fun meet the whole team gets to travel and we stay at a church nearby! But, you will have to stay tuned to next week's blog to find out about that!
Have a good day, and remember to work hard at whatever you do!
January 30, 2018
Welcome to the Men’s Track & Field Blog!
My name is Kevin Gideon. I am a sophomore at Cedarville studying Track & Field, oh wait I mean Exercise Science. Sometimes I feel like Track & Field is my major! I am a distance runner, I run XC in the fall and focus on the mile and steeplechase during track.
My goal with this blog is to just give a little detail and explanation of what running Track & Field at Cedarville is like. I am no great writer or profound thinker but I do try to live in the moment and take things in. So, hopefully I can translate my thoughts about day-to-day practice and meets to this blog well.
The season is already in full swing as the team has had two meets already this season. The Yellow Jacket Sports Information Department does a great job writing articles about the meets giving results/highlights. I would recommend checking those out.
This is the time of the season where you realize that the season is shorter than it seems. Everyone on the team got back from Christmas break and had two weeks of practice before our first meet. And now that we are in the swing of meets G-MAC is right around the corner. This is a harsh reality but also an exciting reality. It's harsh because if you aren't fit then you don't have much time to get fit. It's exciting though because this is our time to show off our hard work. Races and meets are to runners what a concert or recital are to a piano player. All the work is done and now you just have to perform.
Looking forward to this week it is going to be a busy one. Not only will we have a full week of training but also a track meet to host. On Friday we have our home college invitational and then Saturday is our huge high school meet. I think this year there are about 1,200 high school kids coming to the meet.
Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed this first blog. There will be many more to come!
Remember it's all for the Glory of God!
