Wonder women at Spackenkill

Talk about surreal! Just a few days after delving into winter for a day out at Penn State, today I was out at the Spackenkill High School track for a delightfully sunny and warm day with the women's team.

Coach Chuck was under the weather and could not make it to practice. I dispatched the men's team off to Vassar Farm for some light threshold (thanks to Captain Vess for organizing and orchestrating the workout without their Old Man Coach), and went over to the Spack Track for Chuck's prescribed torture: 3x1600, 1x800.

As many of you know, I'm not a big fan of track workouts during the cross country season. This is mostly because the idea of bringing men over to the track gets me nervous. "Restraint" is not in their vocabulary. The women generally do as they are told when it comes to workouts; as a result, going to the track is not as potentially harmful for them.

Well today, the ladies were lights-out great on a warmer-than-normal day. I was extremely impressed. I told several of them after the workout that this could prove to be the greatest assemblage of women's distance runners we have ever had; and trust me, we have had some great ones in the past.

But that's a subject for another day, perhaps. For now, it's great to see the hard work and progress our women's team has made. From the beginning of the season to now. And for the returning women, from last year to this year.

Nicely done, ladies. Let's close out the championship portion of our season in strong fashion.