FELLOW DISTINGUISHED HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE RUNNING CLUB AT UNC CHAPEL HILL…

WE. ARE.  UNDEFEATED.

What a weekend!!!!!  Friday pasta dinner led into perhaps the best home meet I’ve seen in my time here.  Even with seven schools in attendance, including big-time competition from UGA and GT, BOTH the men’s and the women’s team came out on top. Carolina North is under new leadership now. Thank you all for making this weekend (and my last home meet) one to remember.   You all really showed up this weekend.  Huge thank you to Andrew and all of you who volunteered – this wouldn’t have been possible without you.

For the next week:

1. BRING ME BACK YOUR SHORTS.  If you ran this weekend and didn’t return your shorts (or top) at the meet, bring them to me this week.  We need them for our next few meets.  I know who still owes me shorts – and your Mom’s and Dad’s numbers. 
2. UVA sign-ups are closed.  Andrew will send out car sign-ups soon so we can get people there.  This is going to be a great meet, with even deeper competition.  The stage is perfect for it – Panorama Farms is a fantastic course.  
3. Over the next week, we are going to move away from pre-planning routes.  We’ve taught you all a ton of routes and want to give you guys a chance to pick where you want to run, so starting this week folks will just volunteer the routes they wish to lead. We will, however, continue to lead organized workouts.  This week, we will lead a Tuesday Fartlek and an abridged speed session Thursday.  We want to keep those racing mostly fresh for Saturday.

Lastly, I wanted to share the photo of the meet.  Laura somehow crossed a turtle’s path during the meet and proceeded to carry it to safety… resulting in perhaps the two greatest photos of all time.  

That’s it for the moment.  Thank you all again for making this weekend such a blast.  I look forward to the following few weeks, including a much-needed down week next week.  See you all later!!!!!