The ladies came to practice knowing that today was a tempo day, but not knowing the workout. They were particularly lively this morning as they tried to guess what we had in store for them today. Coach Mark had created a progressive mile workout based on their CNU Opening Meet times. The goal was to work on overall speed and finishing speed.
The times for each mile were passed around and then one asked for a pen to write her times on her hand……then the pen was passed around. The warm up to the park was uneventful, but as we started doing the dynamic warm up down to the starting line, the sky opened up on us.
The times written on hands were soon washed away, the coaches had to be creative in writing down times, but the rain didn’t dampen the workout! Although one runner was mad about the rain, she actually had a PR – I think we need to find ways to make her mad before each race! One runner donned her shower cap because “her hair doesn’t do rain”, but the shower cap kept a smile on her face and provided a giggle for lots of runners and walkers in the park. Others in the group commented on how they loved running in the rain, and one of our runners who decided to leave her glasses with the coaches had a great “almost collision with another runner” story. Her story – the guy was wearing black and probably wondered why I was running right at him!
All in all it was a great workout for each runner. I wondered on the way back about adversity and how it can work for the good. The team posted some awesome performances this morning, we had some laughs, and we took a team picture!
I hope that we also can remember this positive performance the next time we have a rainy practice or race. Better yet when faced with adversity off the course, I hope that we can remember how the rain changed the venue for the good!
Squirrels love to run in the rain!
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