A Surprising Result

I coach some talented guys. Colorado coach Mark Wetmore breaks down 4 components to being good. Talent, Durability, Determination, and Courage are the four things he says the truly great ones have. As he says, you don't need a monster all four but you need some combination of the four. My distance guys have talent, durability, determination, and courage as was shown last weekend. However a sprinter (well really middle distance runner as he will be a 400-800m guy when he gets to high school, but he currently is a 200-400m guy) showed some big determination and courage yesterday.

We all knew Rashaun Gaulden was talented. He ran two 53.xx splits at the relay meet last weekend. That is pretty big time considering we (meaning the coaches) don't have the guys do much lactate work or train the guys that hard, even the really good ones. Yesterday though he showed some courage and determination which is what you need when running your first 800m ever and you're also expected to run fast.

The idea for yesterday's meet was to take my best three 800m guys plus Rashaun and take a shot at the school record in the 4x8, 9:07. I knew it would be tough to basically solo some PRs and take a shot at the record but I thought they could come close. We ran good but not great. 9:19 was the total.

4x8 9:19

Garrett 2:21

Andrew 2:29

Rashaun 2:10

Micah 2:19

Three guys came back and ran a good 4x4.

4x4 4:08

Zach 67

Andrew 63

Garrett 62

Micah 55