Team RC Update 3/13/2020
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🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As many big-city races are getting cancelled due to Coronavirus, what can you do to remain positive and stay focused on other aspects of your running goals? Coach Michael gives suggestions on how to cope and turn this situation into a more positive one.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Runas Connect fans, Coach Michael Hammond here with a bit of a somber team RC update update today today we're going to talk about the |
| 0:14.0 | coronavirus race is being cancelled what you can do if your race has been |
| 0:18.7 | canceled which is probably pretty likely at this point. |
| 0:23.5 | So first off, today alone, Boston is looking like it's going to be postponed or even |
| 0:28.4 | canceled outright. |
| 0:29.7 | We're hearing that it might be postponed until like September or something like that. The NCAA has |
| 0:34.9 | canceled all winter and spring championships. In fact, athletes were actually at the indoor |
| 0:40.7 | championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They were there ready to run. They were doing their warm-ups today. |
| 0:45.2 | Meet was supposed to start tomorrow and the NCA completely canceled the event and canceled all |
| 0:49.9 | championships this this summer, this spring and summer. |
| 0:53.2 | So this is getting pretty crazy. |
| 0:55.4 | I mean, I'm not going to comment on the severity of the actual virus itself because I don't know. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm not an expert, you know, that's that's way out of my lane |
| 1:04.2 | what I can say though is that at least in the running world and really in the world |
| 1:08.4 | overall the response has become very very serious that's something I can say with confidence. |
| 1:13.8 | So what can we do? |
| 1:15.4 | The main thing that I want to get across |
| 1:17.8 | is control what you can. |
| 1:19.2 | Control what you can and try to let go of that which you cannot. This is out of our control. This is really an |
| 1:27.6 | unprecedented event, something that no one could have seemed coming. I mean, I'm 30 years old. |
| 1:32.1 | This is, other than 9-11, this is one of the craziest |
| 1:34.9 | things I've ever experienced in my life in terms of the severity and how serious this is being |
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