On a chance encounter yesterday, I happened to 'run' into my old cross-country/track coaches, and after chatting with them for a while, they invited to come and run with my old high school team for the rest of the summer.  Now, I am not in the best shape of my life at the moment.  Though I am trying to get back into some resembling running form for interhall cross-country this year (right now my fitness more closely resembles an asthmatic geriatric man trying to flee from a nurse wanting to give him a bath - wheezing, dying, and smelly!), I am still not quite where I need to be, and there is one girl on the Kearney Catholic cross-country team that is really quite fast.  I mean, she puts all of the guys on the team to shame (though, I'll admit, they have a really young team and some of these guys will come around pretty soon).  Needless to say, I was slightly worried about being shown up by a girl who is four years younger than me.  Luckily, my recent training for a community 5k run/walk going on this weekend had me in just enough shape to hold my own with her this evening.  For such a feat, the guys on the team thanked me heartily for "regaining the dignity of the guys cross-country team"; I was quite humbled and I think that Erika enjoyed having someone to push her at practice for a change as well, so everyone came out ahead (which usually doesn't happen in running, if you know what I mean).

Today's Run: 2 sets of 6 x 200m (with a 200m jog for recovery between each rep)