50,000 miles to Louisville

6 days into the fall campaign. 22 days until our opener in Boone, NC. 100 days until the NCAA II Championships at EP Tom Sawyer Park in Louisville, KY. Let's see...50 athletes at an average of 10 miles per day multiplied by 100 days.... just 50,000 miles of training to go!

100 days of sacrifice....ice baths, 2 hour long runs, mile repeats, hammer intervals, hill reps, slow drills, warmup drills, core routine, circuit training. 100 nights of listening to a generator purring outside your bubble. 100 days to chase your dreams...all for a few minutes of glory and the hope that, if it all works out, we get to come home with a big chunk of wood and brass.

That's what it's all about.

The Trial of Miles, the Miles of Trials.

"What was the secret; they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals or zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The trial of miles, the miles of trials. How could they be expected to understand that?" - Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr.

And so we will be back at it when 5pm rolls around...back to that heart-rending process.