Sunday, September 25, 2016
His return to running
Yesterday was Robert's return to competing on the cross country team. I wasn't able to be there because Thomas began his art classes. Knowing that he hadn't run at all in nearly four weeks, and hadn't finished a race even before that, I was nervous about how things might go. The coach had a conversation with Robert this week about not going out to hard. He needed to recognize and accept his current physical condition and limitations. Robert had told me his plan was to run in the 25 minute range, which is nowhere near his personal best, and also is nowhere near being competitive. Andrew called me when it was over and said Robert had completed the race...and I let out a huge sigh of relief! It took over 24 minutes, but he did finish. Robert has learned a lesson about his lack of preparing this past summer, and combined with the surgery might very well take him out of any post-season competitions. He still has his senior year though, and hopefully be running track, and actually preparing in the off season, he'll be able to be competitive again.
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