as someone that used to coach youth sports 10-15+ years ago I can only imagine what you're going through and what I would be going through if I was still coaching today.

>... and just sending them out into the void, as per my
>athletic director's instructions. The good thing is that my
>distance crew is in one of the rare situations where this
>doesn't actually disrupt their training that much. The DMV
>hasn't restricted going outside for exercise, and they don't
>need a track to get a lot of this work done. They just can't
>do it together.
>
>It's pretty weird though. Our spring sports season hasn't
>technically been canceled, but obviously it's going to be -
>even if we just get to mid-April and you get week-by-week
>cancellations instead of one big one. Ordinarily, I'd start
>pulling back on the volume in about a week or two and start
>letting them build speed, but that seems beyond silly. At the
>same time, admitting that we're not going to race and trying
>to get them ready for cross country would be way easier but
>somehow seems like cheating the regular structure of the
>season somehow? I don't know how to describe that exact
>emotion, particularly when I'll probably get over it soon.
>
>I have received some evidence that some of the runners are
>doing some of the workouts. And folks seem to like it, so I'm
>going to keep it up. It'll be like a weird shadow season.