Region Weekend

As you know the big Region meet is just days away!!!

There is no school Friday and I would like to use this day to have some “Team Time” before the big race. First, I’d like to have a short run and stretch at 12pm Friday afternoon. After that, I would love for all your kids to be able to come out to Mirko Pasta for a team dinner at 5pm. This would be a great time to relax and hang out while I keep an eye on how healthy all the runners are eating before the big meet. Finally, after dinner there is a UGA Women’s Soccer game that we could go watch (and stay out of trouble). The game starts at 7pm and usually goes to about 9pm. The best part is it’s FREE!

To recap Friday’s “Team Time”
Short practice at the school – 12 to 12:30pm
Team dinner at Mirko Pasta – 5 to 6:30ish pm
UGA Soccer game – 7 to 9pm

I realize a lot of our kids don’t drive, so if a few of you wouldn’t mind volunteering to carpool kids over to Athens, hopefully everyone would have the chance to go. Let me know what you think about this. I’ve added directions at the bottom…

From OCHS to Mirko Pasta – go down 78 toward Athens. Take a Left on Gaines School Rd. Go down a bit and Mirko Pasta will be on your right in a relatively new shopping center area.

From Mirko Pasta to Soccer game – Turn Right out of Mirko and go towards College Station Rd. Turn Right on College Station and stay on it for a 1.5 miles or so. Turn Left on Riverbend Rd. and go down it for 1.5 miles. Then turn Left at Milledge Ave. The UGA Soccer complex will be on your Right.

****As far as Saturday goes… ****

We will leave from the school to go to Riverside at 8:30am. The Varsity Girls will race at 11:00am with the Varsity Boys to follow. The JV Girls will start at 12:20pm with JV Boys to follow. I imagine we will return to the school between 3:30pm and 4pm. If you plan on going, be prepared to pay $5 admission this time.

Let me know if you have any questions…

Riverside Invitational

Hello everyone,

We have a big meet this Saturday at Riverside Military Academy. The drive will be a long one, but the race should definitely be exciting. The RMA Invitational will have a lot of competition from within our region and acts as a good preview to the Region Meet. We will need to leave the school right at 8:30am so please be sure you are not late.

The Boys Varsity race will go first at 11am with Girls Varsity and other JV races following. Parents are welcome to follow the bus or even ride along with us, assuming the bus driver is okay with this. If any questions, please let me know.

--Coach

3 More Weeks

Hey everyone,

Great job on winning the Home meet Friday! The guys took the top 3 spots and cruised to a victory while the girls edged out Washington-Wilkes thanks to a bunch of PRs. It feels good to win doesn't it.

This week we will not have a race at Athens Academy (10/15). It was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but has been pushed back to Thursday due to some flooding on their course. I've decided that we will not be going so that we can focus more on the bigger 2 meets ahead. The next couple weeks are going to be BIG! We will have to train as hard as possible for the next 2 weeks to get our bodies in peak condition for the Region meet. Make sure you're at practice and giving it your all. There are only 3 weeks left...

--Coach

Home Meet

Hey runners and parents,

Friday is our one and only Home Meet of the year. I'm very excited to see how we do. It will be a Tri-Meet. We'll be welcoming Washington-Wilkes and Taliaferro, and maybe even some independents. Both the guys and girls have a good shot to win. All girls will be starting at 4pm while all guys will go around 4:45pm.

Remember, there is no school Friday, but you still better be there for this race! All runners and volunteers will need to be there by 2:30pm at the latest.

We'll be setting up the course tomorrow after practice and don't forget that if you're not there, you don't run in the race.

Results will be posted some time this weekend on gatfxc.com
I'm looking forward to some new PRs.

Let me know if you have any questions,

--Coach