The next two scans are from the notes Kevin wrote down after his meeting with the cross-country master; Ashton's Dad from up the street. Ken runs all the time, we only just noticed at this year's Capital City run that he had won his age group in last year's event. As we've talked with him about Kevin's success and enjoyment of cross-country, Ken had said that if Kevin wanted to keep training through the rest of the year that he could help Kevin really improve on his times. And I said 'thanks, I'll mention it to Kevin', but, wasn't sure if Kevin would want to do that, because, at times, Kevin really doesn't want to do the extra work to make the next step in his athletic performance.
But, Kevin did, immediately after cross-country ended, ask Ken if they could sit down and talk, and then, on Thursday, spend more than an hour up the street taking notes, setting up a training plan, learning about 'core training' and 'pliametrics'. Diligently, Kevin went running yesterday, as prescribed in the plan, and will go running today, and Tuesdays, and Thursdays. All according to plan.
