Matt McClintock Fall Athlete Blog
Hey everyone!
My name is Matt McClintock and I was chosen to write a Fall Athlete Blog for all of you. First off let me say that I hope all of you are having fun this summer vacation and that I hope all of your training is going exactly as planned!
(Festival Of Champions Seeded Race 2010)
For those of you who don’t know me very well I figure I’ll give you a little insight into my life. I’m an upcoming senior at Madison Area Memorial High School. .jpg)
Other than running my favorite hobby is playing guitar. I’ve been running since I was first eligible to join the junior high cross country team in 5th grade and have loved it ever since. I live with my mom (Lisa), dad (Mike), sister (Allie you guys will be hearing from her on the trails this year), dog (Mogy), and two cats (Emma and Hershey). I have two very big running idols, Haile gebrselassie, and Steve Prefontiane (GO PRE!).
Things have been going pretty well this summer. I’ve PR’d twice over 5k this summer. I ran 15:42 at the local Farm To Farm 5k (weekly race, you should all check it out) and then a couple weeks later I managed a 15:31 at the Egg Scramble Run To End Hunger 5k.
Sorry, but I don’t like going into to much detail about my training haha I’m a little obsessive compulsive about it, but I will say things are going about as well as they can be and I’m really looking forward to my upcoming senior season.
One thing I hope to do in everyone of these entries is to leave you with a super inspirational running quote. This entry I guess we’ll start off with my all time favorite quote…
“There may be people out there that can beat me, but they’re gonna have to bleed to do it” - Steve Prefontaine
HAVE A GOOD SUMMER EVERYONE!
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