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Current Sycamores Scott Keeney (SR) and Eric Schulz (JR) will be blogging their summer miles on the "Newly Created" Sycamore Cross Country and Track Forum. This is a new feature that we are experimenting with for the summer of 2009. As many of you may or may not know distance runners put in a great deal of time preparing their body for the rigorous Division 1 Cross Country season that awaits them. Scott and Eric will be spending the next several months blogging their miles, sharing their workouts, weather conditions and answering any questions you might have about your own training. These guys will put upwards of 80 plus miles a week mid summer in the heat of the day. They work very hard and are some of the most fit athletes in all the world. I want to take this oppertunity to thank Scott and Eric for their time and dedication to Indiana State! Good Luck this summer Scott, we will be watching!


Sycamore CC & Track: Scott, where will you be training this summer?
Scott: Terre Haute

Sycamore CC & Track: Who will you be training with this summer?
Scott: I will be training with Josh Bedford (former Terre Haute North standout and current Indiana State Sycamore) and Andrew Sullivan (former Terre Haute South standout and current Indiana State Sycamore), and anyone else who wants to come visit! He asked me to personally invite frequent Sycamorehoops.com posters IndyTreeFan and SydCamore for a distance run anytime this summer. ;)

Sycamore CC & Track: Where will you be working this summer?
Scott: I will be working as a Nurse's Assistant at Union Hospital

Sycamore CC & Track: For those incoming freshman, what was your 5k PR while in high schcool?
Scott: 15:39 (3.1 Miles)

Sycamore CC & Track: Ok, what is your 5k PR now after 3 years of college Cross Country?
Scott: 14:39 (3.1 Miles)

Sycamore CC & Track: What is your 8k PR?
Scott: 24:41 Cross Country PR

Sycamore CC & Track: What is your 10K PR?
Scott: 31:46 Cross Country PR

Sycamore CC & Track: Have you set your goals for the up coming Cross Country season, would you mind sharing those?
Scott: Advance to Cross Country Nationals again this year as an individual and hopefully have my teammates there with me; I would also like to break the Indiana State school record of 24:17; I want to be top 3 at the conference meet again and have our team take home the championship (we were only 3 points away last year)......

Sycamore CC & Track: Finally Scott what do you have to say to all of your readers @ Sycamorehoops.com?
Scott: A distance running tradition has been established at ISU since 2004 when the Sycamores won the MVC championship for three consecutive years. Since then, ISU has graduated many of its best runners in its history, including: (1) Jordan Fife (who is still competing as a professional runner for Team Indiana Elite out of Bloomington): while at ISU he was 9th in the nation in the steeplechase, 24:19 PR in cross country, 4:06 indoor mile, 8:09 PR and school record iin the indoor 3K (2) Sean Bowman: 4:06 indoor mile PR and school record, 3 time 1st team all conference in cross country, MVC steeplechase champion in 2008. (3) Justin Kunz: 2 time conference champion in the outdoor 10K and indoor 5K, school record holder in the 10,000 meters (29:49) and outdoor 5K (14:22). (4) Kyle Walsh: 8:18 PR in the indoor 3K, 4:11 mile, 9:07 steeplechase (so far let's see if he can drop it down lower by the end of this season). These guys and many others have contributed greatly to the ISU distance running tradition that I hope will be passed on for many years to come. It appears now as if it may: two of our freshman this year have ran under 15:00 in the outdoor 5K, Jeremiah Vaughan (14:46) and Craig Padgett (14:56). This summer may be the most key summer in Indiana State distance running history. We are on the verge of doing something special that has never happened: advancing to the national cross country championships. With the graduation of myself, Eric Schulz, Jared Messmann, and Thomas Crum next year, it appears as if this is THE YEAR to get the job done!

Scott and Eric will blog their summer miles until Sunday, August 22!
 
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The "distance running tradition" was started in 1983 when McNichols was hired as the coach. While we may not have won an MVC championship as soon as he was hired, he brought ISU to the top of the conference for CC right away. ISU won a few MVC CC championships before the run of 3 straight that began in 2004.

just my .02 cents
 
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Here is the MVC list of ISU all-MVC runners, I added Keeney's 2008 all-mvc award to this list. I assume he's going to run CC this Fall then.

Indiana State
David Birke ................................1996
Sean Bowman ...............2004, 05, 06
Brent Compton ....................1990, 91
George Condy .....................1993, 94
Montez Crider ............................1988
Jordan Fife ...........................2004, 05
Jason Gunn .........................1999, 00
Aaron Harding ...........................2004
Kyle Hobbs ..........................1990, 91
Patrick James ............................1988
Scott Keeney .......................2006, 07, 08
Todd Kostelnik ...........................1994
Justin Kunz ................................2006
Antonio McDaniel ......................2005
Jason Petipren ...........................2000
Randy Placenia .........................2007
Bill Porter ...................................1994
Mark Rode .................................2001
Eric Rush .......................1985, 86, 88
Rick Sluder ................................1998
Isaiah Stafford ...........................2001
Scott Walschlager ......................1986
Geoff Wayton .............................1997
Kurt Wayton .........................1996, 99
Blaine Zimmerman ....................2005

Morgan said:
Yeah so that will make him a SR. in Cross Country and he just red shirted what would have been his SR. year of track. So he will be entering his SR. all the way though. He had a red shirt his freshman year (I remember because he was my roommate). But we quit living together because he went to bed every night at like 9:00. lol Naa we lived together SO year also...
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OK, glad we got that straightened out now! Heck, Scott's a member here, have him clarify all this! ha!
 
Yes, true....the ISU distance tradition did begin when Coach McNichols arrived back in 1983. I definitely did not mean to downplay the success of any athletes or teams prior to 2004, I only did so to give a background on recent success and also because I know these athletes personally as friends.

Saturday, May 9
So here is my first post: I ran 8 miles today with former ISU runner Antonio McDaniel in Bloomington. We watched the meet last night and then both stayed with Jordan Fife, who is living and training in Bloomington as mentioned above. This is the longest run I have completed since March, and I am working my way back into shape slowly. I will probably hit around 40 miles this week.
 
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why did Jordan not finish the 1500 last night?

Skeeney said:
Yes, true....the ISU distance tradition did begin when Coach McNichols arrived back in 1983. I definitely did not mean to downplay the success of any athletes or teams prior to 2004, I only did so to give a background on recent success and also because I know these athletes personally as friends.

So here is my first post: I ran 8 miles today with former ISU runner Antonio McDaniel in Bloomington. We watched the meet last night and then both stayed with Jordan Fife, who is living and training in Bloomington as mentioned above. This is the longest run I have completed since March, and I am working my way back into shape slowly. I will probably hit around 40 miles this week.
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Sunday May 10
6 miles
I ran by myself in Frankfort on the golf course.
The weather was perfect: sunny with a nice breeze, about 65 degrees.
Felt good, the foot feels incredible.
 
Week ending May 10th.....40 miles total. I plan on doing about 45 miles or so next week. Usually I dont start good training until July so I am increasing the miles steadily.
 
Monday May 11
5 miles...After the run I did 175 X pushup/pull, and a good core routine.
I ran by myself on Safari Trails in Terre Haute.
Weather was perfect once again.
 
Tuesday May 12
6 miles
I ran to Deming Park and back.
The foot felt worse today from standing all day two days in a row when I was shadowing at Union Hospital and at a doctor's office. The weather was incredible for the third day in a row, but I hear that tomorrow some storms are going to roll in.
 
Foot Injury Question?

What exactly is wrong with your foot? And is it not totally healed? Were you supposed to have surgery? Should you not take more time off until it is totally healed?

Just curious because I really don't know the answers to any of these questions.
 

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The condition of my foot is actually a strange subject, and not a typical muscular or skeletal injury that is common in runners. The story started a few years ago when I got some pretty bad plantar warts. Not knowing anything about them, I went to a local doctor here in Terre Haute who recommended surgery to actually use a scalpel and cut them out. So, a year ago from right now, I had the surgery done. It was fine for a while after that, but eventually the warts returned in the scar tissue where my surgery was, and this became very, very painful. I dealt with them as best I could in cross country and indoor. At the end of indoor they were extremely painful, to the point where I had to take ibuprofen before each race just so that I could make it through the race. I had a redshirt available for outdoor and coach and I talked and decided that I should use it. It was a great decision: I went and saw one of the best podiatrists in the country and we got rid of them. My foot is still uncomfortable right now but it seems to be getting better and better and I hope that soon I will be back to 100%. So there is my weird story!
 
Thursday May 14
6 miles
Ran with Josh Bedford on Safari Trails in West Terre Haute.
Felt very good today, the weather was surprisingly nice: sunny and about 70 degrees.
 
Friday May 15
5 miles, then 175 X pushup/pull and a core workout.
Ran alone today in the morning because I'm going to work the MVC championships for most of the day.
 
Saturday May 16
9 miles
I ran with Antonio McDaniel and Scott Krapf today. We ran down Heritage Trail to the Cemetery, then over to Deming Park and back to campus down Ohio Blvd.
 
Sunday May 19
6 miles
I ran with Jordan Fife, Antonio McDaniel, Scott Krapf, and Dave Santelik. We ran over to Safari Trails, which were surprisingly nice considering it had rained the past couple of days.
 

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Tuesday May 19
7 miles.....7:04 average pace
I ran with Andrew Sullivan. We headed to Safari Trails at first but they were flooded so we went back into town and then around campus. He has a GPS watch and heart rate monitor so he showed me the average pace afterwards. The weather was incredible today.
 
Wednesday May 20
8 miles....7 minute pace or so
I ran again with Sullivan today. We ran down Ohio Blvd. to Deming and then to Dobbs and did a loop in there. Afterwards I did some good stretching.
 
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