Day 7 July 14th

Today was definitely one of the most eventful days at camp. We ran the Perkey Mile, competed in different relay-races, and had a dance party.

The Perkey Mile went very well. Some campers chose to race, and others chose to run at an easy pace. The group of people I ran with decided to practice what we learned at camp, and it was really fun. As for the relays, there were a lot of water balloons involved. We had to run with them in between our knees, toss them to a partner, and we even got to throw them at the campers running with watermelon.

But those weren't the best parts of the day!

Here's where it gets interesting:

Today's dinner started out pretty normally. We gathered our semi-favorite meals on our plates, filled our cups with Gatorade or chocolate milk, and sat down at a table, squishing together so that everyone would be able to fit on the seats. We talked about normal things--food, school, food, you know, the important stuff--and ate our food as happily as we could (you can only enjoy cafeteria food so much).

Eddie, being the pensive person he is, brought up the topic of the "abnormal". Let me explain: here at NAU, there's a cornucopia of odd people. In fact, as my friend David claims, the word "odd" doesn't even begin to describe the people here. There are dancing lawn care-takers, bag-pipers, and band camp kids. They're all pretty unique, to say the least. Anyway, Eddie claimed that you could do anything, (okay, maybe not anything, like stacking men wouldn't catch on very well), and it'd be considered normal here. He decided to demonstrate.

Placing a mustard bottle on the top of his head, Eddie then began to change the world as we know it. He caused a wave in the ocean, so to speak. Billy, Alison, Brandon, David, Catherine, and myself all joined in. Pretty soon, everyone in the cafeteria--even an old couple--began to balance condiment bottles on top of their heads. And it was HILARIOUS. But as quickly as this awesome new movement began, it was shut down at just the same pace. The chef, and even the manager, came out to chide the silly children.

But no fear! The mustard movement shall live on!

Bo Reed campers: changing the world one mustard bottle at a time.

Zoe Urcadez

Shananagens With State Champions

The morning of the 11 began much like any other morning. The sun came up, we got up, stretched and split up into morning groups. My group was assigned hills! Even being my 4th year at camp, I still learned quite a bit about how to run a hill, coming from different leaders. It was FREEZING and raining outside, and somehow our group managed to be the last one home. Great right? To top it all off, what we thought was breakfast time, was really a nutrition lecture where the eating consisted of a bagle and bowl of fruit split among 7 people. The day got better though (we got to finish with a proper breakfast upon the conclusion of the lecture). We went on a beautiful run after lunch and worked on some songs for our animal groups (mine being the Wisdom of Wombats). Our song turned out less than fantastic, but other groups were great! The highlight of the day was the recovery stations. Foam rollers, tennis balls, self massages, and lots of stretching led to a relaxing afternoon.To finish off the night, we did a "speed not-dating" game where we got to know our fellow campers. Lastly, a group of us were hanging out, telling stories and what not in the lobby. One unfortunate camper happened to fall asleep in an armchair and was subjected to our shananagens. First we hoisted the chair in the air and he breifly woke up with a look of terror on his face, but that quickly passed and he was fast asleep once again. Since he seemed to be sleeping just fine, we decided to dream a little bigger. We moved some couches around and hid another camper under the box. A few confusing minutes and taps on the window later, the sleeping camper was awake once again with an odd look on his face. He decided to go to bed after that! It was quite a fun day!





Alison

Day 4 - 8 Day Campers

Today, we got up at 6:30, stretched and in light rain. After breakfast, we did an activity where we tried to take a drawing from one person, explain it to the "communicator" who would then go and tell the "creator" what to make out if toothpicks and Dots. We got some pretty complicated stuff, from bear heads to pick-up trucks and everything in between. After, we did core and ate lunch. After lunch, the 5 Day campers came and we went from having a few kids at the camp to many more. The increase was a little bit of a shock the first day but, speaking from experience last year, within another day we will get used to the numbers. We had an orientation where we split off into groups and got to know each other a little bit. After the lengthy orientation and waiting out lots of rain, we finally got out to run. It was sort of comical to see that many people running down a trail at so many different fitness levels. After the run, we ate dinner and had a lecture in one of the biology classrooms. Then we went on activity #2. The different teams fanned out across the NAU campus looking for things ranging from cool hats to statues to Amendments written on walls. The whole day was amazing but everyone is exhausted so sleep will be very good for all of us.

Flynn

Day 3: running and.... running

Star Log: Day 3, July 9, 2011

A long time ago in a glaxy far far away:

Excuse me for the odd introduction but Alex's 3 Dimensional backpack put me in the mood. Today was quite exciting. Yes, quite. The day started with a rude awakening into reality from the dreams of fluffy unicorns and rainbows to running. Breakfast was decent if you had a tasting handicap. Afterwards we had an amazing debate/discussion/interigation of/with Brian Shrader. His vast knowledges enlightened us as we were falling asleep due to an intense debate between Bo/Brian/Vince which lasted two hours. The one thing I learned to strive for: chugging a thermo in twelve seconds. Thats called success. Anywho, we then did an intense four minute abb workout which, unfortunately, did not consist of starfish or stars. Lunch was tepidly flavorful and not worth mentioning any more than that. We then made an unanimous decision to go to the pool. We tried to be disciplined and do laps but we then balled it up to the extreme and played basketball. After drying off we went to Fort Tuthill and experienced the most amazing work out ever. A 42 minute run with some epic drills and, AND! i found 55 cents.

So that somes up the day, we'll see how Shrek the 4th goes.

Chao,

Nighthawk

a.k.a Brandon Corke

Side trip to grand canyon for camper who came early.....what a view!

Hilarity Ensues

BO REED

(please read this in a terrible english accent, because BO has been using that accent all day)

Today we did a light run at 6:30 with stretching prior. We had breakfast, and then a session about traditions. If your looking for ideas.....have everybody make a team mate one cupcake for their birthday (which means you get all the leftovers) After that we ate again, so at running camp you might gain a few ironically because we have buffet styled meals three times a day. The highlight of the day was when BO's melodic voice guided us through a visualization during which we spread out like eagles and closed our eyes facing the ceiling. He walked us through a race and gave us a spirit animal to visualize ourselves as.....Henry the Heron (from a previous camp joke) In this visualization, we were all winners. BO's super melodic skills actually put a camper to sleep of which we have photo documentation. Dinner followed shortly after, and then a game of cameraface tag. If you don't know this, its the hardest game you will ever play and I suggest you tackle people. Run around in a small space and try to get a picture of as many faces as you can. RIDICULOUS RIGHT?! We are in the evening moments now about to watch Shrek the 4th....yes they did make a fourth one

more tales to come!

-happy runner

Camper Results at the State Championships

Campers at the State Championships:

Returning Campers

Zoe Urcadez Salpointe 3200m 11:53.04 16th

David Haun Kingman 800m 2:00.39 14th

Alison Fraher Prescott 3200m 12:26.81 20th

Catherine Zabilski Veritas 800m 2:36.25 8th place 1600m 5:36.9 2nd place 3200m 12:14.93 1st place

New Campers Coming This July!!

Haley Stenquist Sabino 800m 2:24.48 8th place 1600m 5:04.75 1st place 3200m 11:25.47 3rd place

Marley Henson Rio Rico 800m 2:28.97 15th place 1600m 5:24.55 6th place 3200m 11:40.99 5th place

Past Campers / Some may be returning:

Janeth Gomez Bourgade 1600m 5:46.11 6th place 3200m 13:08.4 8th place

Hayden Palmer Prescott 800m 2:01.27 15th place 1600m 4:30.81 6th place 3200m 10:14.6 6th place

Ryan Norton Cibola 800m 1:56.66 17th place 1600m 4:26.87 10th place 3200m 9:40.52 7th place

Dylan Souza Catalina Foothills 800m 1:56.3 1st place

Zac Eliason Prescott 800m 1:58.8 7th place

* Did not include relay results.

Hello out there! Wow!
The Clinic was way cool! Sorry to say this but I enjoyed the Clinic more than the camp.
Here are the reason's why.
1. small number so the attention was one on one. I actually got to take time to see each runner run where I could witness form, point of fatigue and natural gait and style of each camper. It was incredible. The one thing I learned is that next year the clinic will be capped at 15 maximum. That will be about all I can handle in 3 days time. Keep in mind the information given at the Clinic is based on a Stamina Phase that I designed and so I cannot just bring in a counselor and say okay, 'teach this idea to the kids.' It won't work. I have to oversee most of it and therefore will only be able to work with about 15 kids and even that is a large number for the attention given to each athlete.
Meal time - oh my the meals were an intimate setting where the athletes engaged in conversation, commented on a flicker called The Princess Bride, played Trivial Pursuit and two very important songs: one was Happy Birthday to Ben Dawson and the other a rendition of Cadillac Ranch.
Visits to the camp include: Mark Souza (Daddy of the Summer Camp) and his son Dylan Souza and Hilary McCarthy my original sing-a-long partner from days gone by. Hanna Henson another edition of our summer days and of course thanks to Bryce Livingston for all his help and added information on some of the spiels and of course without Coach Erin Dawson this Clinic just doesn't happen - so thank you Erin and the U of A track and field staff for allowing us to host on your facility.

So for those of you thinking about the Clinic here's is a bit of information that we gathered: I will not give the details so you will have to guess the rest but enough to give you an idea of the attention you receive and what you learn at our clinic. Here's the trick though - I edited the information the people in the clinic got very specific information to which you will not attain by simply reading this blog. (I cannot give away all of our secrets.) But I can guarantee you this - of the detailed stuff not a distance coach in the country on any level is doing the stuff that we are teaching. That is just a fact. I have sent runners to: Oregon, NAU, Clayton College, UNLV, William Woods, Metro State, College of the Southwest, Western New Mexico, and no one is doing this stuff. And the best part, I cannot teach it all in 3 days so there's a good chance that next year the clinic will give different information than this year.



Male
300m Monday - 52.15
300m Wednesday – 48.56
(average = 50.355
1. 150m = 23.26 = 31.03 200m pace Time includes...
2. 210m = 29.51 = 27.714 for 200m
Tuesday work 14:40.29.


Female
300m Monday – 65.1
300m Wednesday – 59.5
Average = 62.29

Strides
1. 170m = 28.23
2. 170m = 27.39
3. Avg. = 27.81
Workout times – 6:28.6 / 5:54.16 / 5:39.31 total 18:02.07

Female
300m Monday – 73.19
300m Wednesday – 62.1
Avg. 67.64 = 6:00.77

Strides
160m = 24.26
120m = 19.42 You lost it inside the first 90m we continued on to make sure that we saw what we thought we saw. You are learning a lot and this is still good stuff. The key is you are learning.

Workout times – 6:28.6 / 5:54.16 / 5:17.04 total work = 17:39.8

Female
300m Monday – 66.18
300m Wednesday – 52.5
Avg. 59.34 avg. pace pretty good eh?

Strides
160m - 26.04
140m – 20.82

It is important for you to run fast. The goal is to run faster than p.r. pace at some point. Don’t go gunning for extra distance to cover just every time you get the chance let the body find the fast stuff.

Workout times / 6:28.6 / 5:54.16 / 5:08.1 = total work 17:30.86
Added to that - - 3:07.26

Female
300m 62.62 – good start, really bummed you were not there for the all vital Wednesday. You are far faster than your personal records as actually all of the Clinic members are.

workout times / 6:28.6 / 5:54.16 / 5:05.89 = 17:28.65

Male
300m – 47.47
Strides:
170m – 22.57
170m – 22.2
Avg. 22.385
When you see it like this the full meaning comes out!
workout time was 14:40.29.

And on that crew here are the key slogans that came out of the 3 day tour!

The Angels do all their descending during practice

I’m in my sore phase.

We’ll check out later we still have to trash the place.

Thank you all for being part of the history making clinic!! It will continue and it will grow and ya’ll are the first ever and I am so glad we put it together. Ya’ll helped me realize that this segment must go onward and that we need to maximize the number at near 15. The information is too specific and detailed to have a camp of more than 15. Also many of you are seniors so please if you have not already register at the NCAA Eligibility Center and if you want some college contacts I have some.
Keep well and have fun,
Bo