Coach KO

I’ve got somewhat of a weird status up here at Tech.  Officially, I’m a “volunteer assistant coach”, but what that means is pretty undefined.  Basically, when I’m in town I just show up to whatever practices mesh well with my training schedule from Fish.  So I’m not really still an athlete on the team, but I don’t really feel like much of a coach either.  I’m just floating somewhere in between.

But this past weekend I got to pretend that I actually was a coach.  The real assistant coach, Cork, needed the weekend off, which meant the cross country running team needed another van driver for their trip to Kenosha.  Since that race is on the very sweet Footlocker Midwest course, and has a very nice policy on unattached runners, I was all in.  Joe even gave me a sweet athletic department staff polo so I’d look all professional!

Ok, so I did race.  I guess a really real coach probably would’ve been out on the course cheering and taking splits.   But even though I eventually I want to end up as the head coach of some wildly sucessful collegiate program, I think it may be a while untill I’m willing to give up the trill of actually racing myself.  Because really, that feeling is pretty much the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

Results HERE, although I’m not on them (I think I was around 19:18ish?).  Apperently they don’t love the unattached runners all that much.

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