Date set for banquet

Just a short post..

"Hi!

Love,
Coach Bill"

Okay, a bit more than that... the date for the banquet will be December 12th. Location will be First Baptist Church of Bedford, like last year. Time is not yet set, but I'd guess dinner time.

Our exchange student is settling in fine. Things are becoming the new normal. He's a fascinating young man, so dinners have been interesting. ;)

Hope your hurts are healed! See you soon on the roads!

Catching up

Ladies,

The site has been mostly dark over the last week or so. There hasn't been anything team-related to report, so I haven't bothered you with it. I do have some things to share, along with a couple of reminders, so here goes...

Uniforms! I need to get those in. There are a couple of ways to go with this.

1. Place the top and bottom in a ziplock bag and give to Mrs. Deckard in her art classroom. 
2. Give it to me (in a ziplock bag) at our banquet.

Yes, there will be a banquet. I'm waiting on Coach Hiles to contact me, at least for a while. If I do not hear from him soon, I'll set something up. You ladies have stated you want to do it with the guys, so I'm allowing him to decide the details. One thing for sure; I do have to have those uniforms! We did not buy new ones, so we'll be using the old again next year.

On to news... You may or may not have heard, but we have an addition to our family. Because of circumstances I do not care to detail, Igor Korolkov, a Russian exchange student, will be staying with us (at least for a while). You might have seen him around the school. He's a nice young man, so stop and say "hi!" to him if you get a chance. 

On a personal note, you might recall I told you I was going to run a marathon in December. Funny thing about that... last Thursday, right before I was about to go out for a run, I got a text from a friend saying her son could not run the Indy Marathon - would I like his number? I had plenty of reasons not to, first of all I had been training only 4 weeks, but I'm Bill Deckard, so I said, "Why not?"

I transferred the number to my name, and ran with Tim Miller. He paced me throughout, and did a superb job. There were three goals for the race:

1. Primary - finish the race
2. Secondary - get a time that would qualify me for Boston in 2015 (I needed 3:30)
3. Tertiary - break 3:20

We wound up running 3:14:26, well under all goals! It was completely stupid on every level, but as I say all the time, you have to have the courage to try.

Anyway, it's now at the point in time where those of you not in another sport need to be running again. I'm not coaching you per se - that's Coach Spence and Coach Scott - but they have talked about this with you. Don't neglect your running in the off-season!