Bad News - Good News

The boys at N-City have stopped coming to practice except for one. He's pretty dedicated and wants to run in the NJCTC on 11/6. We did not run in the Greystone Invitational last Saturday because someone in the main office of the N-City school didn't mail out the check with the entry fee. Just as well since we only had one runner available.

The girls are only a little bit better. They come sporadically to practice but we still have five, enough for a team. They still can't run 2 miles without stopping to walk and they have their first race (3.1 miles) tomorrow. We are racing an all-girls school from N-City and it should be a massacre. I'm more worried about whether they will show up tomorrow than how they will do.

But the good news is that we had our X-C meeting at E-City school today. All ten girls showed up at the meeting. I thought I was dreaming. I gave them a 15 minute talk on what Cross Country really was about and to see if they still wanted to do it. Seven are still on board and three are thinking it over. Keeping fingers crossed for the 2011 E-City Harriers.