Well since my running is pathetic....

..I'll write about the kids we are working with at school.

Due a combination of factors (mostly my introduction to HS and general lack of organization) our school XC team has only raced twice. Like i said before we have small team, but they are getting more kean as they start to race and also see their fitness getting better. it's tough with the HS kids as they have no real idea of training. Hopefully next year the kean we'll get the kean kids at least jogging 20-30 mins before they come back to school.

Of special note are our ultra kean grade 8 girls. We have two pretty talented ones and the best part are their attitudes. They are both turning into tough lil ones. They never miss practices and it's showing in the results and improvement levels. it's not that myself ansd Scott are doing much with them, but we are doing just enough to bring out their talents.

This past Sat was their second race of the seson at the pre-BC HS championships race. One of the girls was 27th in the junior race while the other was a very impressive 9th. Considering they were running against many 'club' and older kids I was very impressed with how they raced and handled themsleves. We've already decided that these two girls (along another gr 8 who didn't run and a gr 9 'sprinter' who hasn't yet ralized she is actually a middle distance runner) are the basis of our grand plan to build some teams that will be able to compete at BC HS XC's in the next few years. If we can simply get them to the BC HS XC Jr race and also have a full gr 8 girls team at Fraser Valley XC's we'll be ecsatic. Right now it looks as though we might get them qualifed for HS's, but we need to pick up one more girls for a full gr 8 team. As I say 'we'll see'....