Let's Make Nationals This Year

I don't want to have any regrets after this summer of training. This past year was horrible for me running-wise, and it left me with too many "What Ifs?". "What if I had run more miles?", "What if I wasn't anemic?" Let's do everything we can to make nationals. If we do, we won't have any regrets. We only have so many years of college running, and those years fly by. No more waiting until next year to "do everything right" as Ragz likes to say. Don't procrastinate. Run the miles (>70), treat your body well, and have fun. It will be worth it come November.

Read Ethan's blog post on this same vein (http://gojumbos.com/cblog2/?p=83) .
Here's an excerpt:
You may be a freshmen and have 12 seasons of competing in front of you, but this is the ONLY shot for the 2008-2009 teams. Next year will be your only sophomore year and so on. Right about now, many freshmen and sophomores are looking at me cross-eyed. Somehow their denial is so strong they have managed to convince themselves that college will last forever. They have no sense of an end or urgency to make it something special. Coaches and seniors can talk about all this until they’re blue in the face, but the fact of the matter is, some people will never realize the impermanent nature of their college years until it hits them in the face like a 2×4.
If you have a goal…go get it…now…don’t wait.