Racing good, weather ridiculously good

The stay at Eagle Mountain House, and the fantastic weather all weekend made the long drive well worth it.  And also we have continued to perform really well as a team, certainly meeting many goals and expectations.  I can feel everyone wanting more though.  

We finally did somewhat well in a sprint race, no real breakthroughs but at least we had some racers get past the qualification prologue (4 guys, 1 girl).  As a coach I need to give some more thought as to how they should prepare as they wait for the heats to begin.

Mostly right now I feel like a good season could easily start to become great or start to get bad due to sickness.  The Collegiate schedule doesn't allow much if any time for recovery, if you get sick at this point it is pretty much over by the time you are 100% again.  Last year this really hurt us but the year before we managed to stay fairly healthy.  Its part luck, part hygiene, and part training.

For those that might read this regularly, of which there are probably few.  I am trying to not be sports information here and write a whole story for the weekend but rather just what I am thinking from the coaches perspective.  If others post, all the better.

Stars of the week were Libby Hayden who scored for the team both days and just missed out on making the sprint heats.  Zach Wetherell had a decent day in the sprint making the first round but really turned it on in the 10K free to post a career best 13th place, just behind Wolcott in 12th.