Buzz Runs: welcome back

Sunday, August 12, 2012

welcome back

It's finally here...time to report to campus, take care of all the paperwork and physicals, and get started with practice! We hope you are as excited as we are! A list of important dates was emailed today, so make sure you received it and have all the dates marked down somewhere.

We will have an optional team dinner on Thursday, more details to follow. But as it is optional, please text us IF YOU ARE NOT ATTENDING so that we'll know the number to plan for. We also have a team dinner on Friday after our meetings that we expect everyone to attend, as well as a lunch on Saturday.

As official practice does not start until the first day of classes, we will meet for an optional 80% run on Friday morning, and then plan on switching your long run to Saturday morning this week. Again, on an optional basis, we will meet Saturday morning and car pool out to either Kennesaw or the River. With physicals and pictures on Sunday, it would be difficult to get the long run in on the usual day.

See you Thursday!

42 comments:

Anonymous said...: Katie V
52 for the week. Ran in to some IT band, knee, and heel issues but had a very solid 13 mile long run this morning.; August 12, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Katie T. said...: 55; August 12, 2012 at 5:55 PM
Greenwald said...: 61 in 6, mostly doubles. Learned some weird-ass mental training techniques from former GT coach, Mike Spino. Had a good 14 miler today and the summer's best workout too! It was intense. For anyone that wants to ride the pain train, do this after you run: 300 jump rope, 20x (5 pull ups, 10 pushups, 15 air squats), 300 jump rope. I'm excited to get to GT and set up our room, cause it is gonna be sick! Where are we eating the team dinner, Coach?; August 12, 2012 at 6:34 PM
patrick said...: 71; August 12, 2012 at 6:44 PM
Austin O'Connell said...: 61 miles, felt good.; August 12, 2012 at 6:46 PM
Laura Serres said...: 43; August 12, 2012 at 7:22 PM
Wout said...: 48; August 12, 2012 at 7:28 PM
Megan B said...: 53; August 12, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Caroline said...: 44; August 12, 2012 at 7:59 PM
Hayley said...: 48 and can't wait to see everyone!; August 12, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Nat E said...: 58 miles last week with a day off. Looking forward to coming back!; August 12, 2012 at 8:48 PM
Shawn said...: 65 last week, I changed around a bunch of days so that I could get all my runs back on schedule since I was a day off on everything and doing my long runs on Saturday. Lucky for me though, coach BTDT must have heard I was doing this and decided to switch up the long run to Saturday this week.

On a slightly more positive note, Lolo Jones is no longer my favorite Olympic athlete. I'm all about Manteo "Greg Jennings" Mitchell now. Anyone who can break their leg and still run a 46 is a good man in my books.; August 12, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Wyatt Gouldthorpe said...: 53 last week. I'm excited to finally get to run with other people again!; August 12, 2012 at 9:39 PM
Diana Pressel said...: this week 33.5 over 5 days of running, and swimming/biking as cross training. The week before tuesday-sunday i cross-trained, 13 miles of running sunday/monday. the cortisone shot definitely helped.; August 12, 2012 at 9:55 PM
Katie T. said...: Wait I did 50 sorry; August 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM
Alec said...: 54 with a day off. Best fartlek and tempo all summer. Ran 13.5 for the long run today. Took a lot out of me.; August 12, 2012 at 10:14 PM
McMeekin said...: 53 last week 56 this week sorry for late post.; August 12, 2012 at 10:40 PM
Morgan Jackson said...: 44 in 6 days, driving again for a full day. Had an awesome 13 long run for today at KM saw Austin and DJ! Also had a good tempo this week and ran with my new Kenyan-running friend.
Jeremy- Ms. Spino was my substitute teacher in middle school haha (yes it's the same Spino family); August 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM
Lauren Y said...: Building back up... 32 for last week plus some cross training. Aiming to hit my actual mileage this week. Doubling up on iron supplements at the moment. Got in a quality long run this past week but no tempo runs.; August 12, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Kelly said...: 35 this week with a lot of biking as well, a little short due to travel. Had a really good 12 miler at the river today though; August 13, 2012 at 12:37 AM
Elizabeth said...: Ran 3 days this week. Starting to increase the length of the runs now. Lots of biking and swimming. Can't wait to see everyone!; August 13, 2012 at 7:52 AM
Veith said...: 58. nothing special.; August 13, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Saxon said...: 0 again - will go see Paul when I get to campus for physiotherapy and hopefully that will fix it because rest isn't doing much for it; August 13, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Brandon said...: 48 for last week. Really looking forward to being back.; August 13, 2012 at 10:15 AM
JWeg said...: 53 miles in the mountains including 3 in a torrential downpour and lightning storm on a search and rescue mission to save the slower campers. A couple of campers tried to shitkick me during the fartlek workout and found themselves quickly dropped. DBAB.; August 13, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Rachel H said...: 47! Can't wait to see everyone!!!!!!; August 13, 2012 at 11:18 AM
zACK said...: 45 this week. Pushed my long run to today (Monday) because of the longer run Saturday to catch up on mileage for the week. Had some solid days, including an 8 miler in a downpour just like JWEG. Been working on my form and arms.

Anyone see the men's marathon? Uganda for the upset! And I am as excited as Greenwald to get back to Tech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!; August 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Unknown said...: 55 for the week, cut my saturday run short because my ankle flared up slightly, was fine for 14 on sunday though

Fartlek and tempo were solid this week; August 13, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Chance Eldredge said...: 12 on Sunday then 0 the rest of the week but finally figured out the pain in my leg is from an inflamed sciatic nerve. Return to running imminent.; August 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM
Doug said...: 58 miles for the week.

I did uptempo runs and easy runs but no real workouts this week. They all felt good. Looking forward to getting back!; August 13, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Laura N.
40; August 13, 2012 at 7:38 PM
Obiandu said...: 55 for the week up at a running camp in NC with my boy JWeg. Hip flexor issues in the middle of the week so..took a day off. fartlek workout went well. 80% run went well also. Overall an ok though week as I was trying to get use to the trails up in the mountains of NC. But it was fun.; August 13, 2012 at 8:45 PM
Justin said...: 52 for a 6 day week.; August 13, 2012 at 8:47 PM
Big Dog said...: 57 for the week..feeling a lot better (not sick anymore), just feeling a little weak still. Otherwise, runs have felt really good and I've definitely been surprised by how easy 80% runs have felt. Just need to finish up the summer with a solid week of rest and nutrition and I'm good to go!; August 13, 2012 at 11:49 PM
Mary Kate said...: 56, a little short due to some crazy hours during my last week working, glad to be done with the intern grind just relaxing at kiawah island now. Tried to find Rory McIlroy during the PGA championship to propose to him but was unsuccessful. Also tried to sneak onto Tiger Woods' yacht but his security guards stopped me, amateur hour I know. Hope everyone's move in goes smooth, see y'all in a few days!!; August 14, 2012 at 9:42 PM
Eric said...: Mediocre 55 on the week. It was my last week of work and I moved home from New Orleans until I head to school, so I was a bit stressed. Similar to Doug, did a lazy unstructured fartlek and an uptempo 10 miler but no real workouts. Ready to get back to Tech!; August 14, 2012 at 9:42 PM
Unknown said...: 44 last week; August 14, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Maria B said...: 42 :); August 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Paige said...: 42; August 15, 2012 at 1:44 PM
Elena said...: Hey! I've been traveling the last few weeks and haven't been keeping up with the blog, sorry!

July 22nd - 47 miles
July 29th - 45 miles
August 5th - 40 miles

I took an extra day off last week because of the 13 hour flight back from Japan. Looking forward to seeing everyone next week!; August 15, 2012 at 4:43 PM
joe stowe said...: 55 すずしい (su-zu-shii ... cool, refreshing) miles with a day off due to general fatigue. Finishing up things at CareerBuilder/Norcross this week. Will miss some of the epic farleks around Norcross High's track. Given this is the last comments section of summer 2012, it justifies a Steve Ovett quote:

"You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting."; August 16, 2012 at 12:45 AM
Kaylee I said...: 42 last week; August 17, 2012 at 4:58 PM