The Good and The Bad!
Coach Busch -- THE GOOD: Outdoor track starts today at the Wabash Relays! The guys are ready to run and enjoy the weather as we have been anticipating getting outside all winter. A big thanks to Coach Johnson, Trinity, Marian, Franklin and Robert Morris for joining us for the beginning of the outdoor track season.
As I write this from the hotel room in Lima, OH, I have to sit and think how lucky I am and how lucky Geoff Lambert has been the last 2.5 years. He and I are heading back to the Div. III NCAA Indoor Track Nationals this afternoon. Geoff has qualified for 5 consecutive (indoor and outdoor) track national meets. Way to go G!
THE BAD: The weather isn't as "spring-like" as we would like, but it's still decent enough to get things rolling.
Unfortunately, Lambert did not qualify for the 800m finals here at the Indoor National meet. He was not mentally prepared to race the second of two prelims in the manner that it happened. He and I had discussed all possible scenarios and he made a decision at the beginning of the race that did not work out in his favor. See, I had called him over to talk right before his heat was to begin and showed him the time of the first heat which was pretty darn fast. I instructed him to make the second heat honest by getting out quickly. He choose to "wait and kick" which is awfully tough to do against the top 12 800 meter runners in the country!
It is now time for Geoff to get ready for the outdoor season and join his teammates back in Crawfordsville. Outdoor track nationals will be here before you know it!!!
