 Hello, welcome to the Day of Burdan Show. I'm Greg Royce, joined by Stevenson Cross Country Head Coach Day of Burdan. And Coach, you guys didn't compete and meet this past weekend, but obviously got some training in. Was it nice to get a little rest here in the middle of the season? Yeah, definitely. I mean, it wasn't really a rest for them. So the way it works for us is if on a week that we don't have a race, I really upped the training. So the volume was up, the intensity was up. They had one of their probably hardest workouts of the whole entire season on Friday. They had a double workout. They had a hard workout at 6 AM and then another. And then we did it again in the afternoon. So they were a little tired from that. But it's all in the plan. Yeah. Yeah, obviously we've talked about the start of the season, the plan. Obviously, you're building towards conference meeting and NCAAs. And it must be nice to have a little bit of a gap where you can focus more on training rather than just resting for the next race. Yeah, exactly. I mean, yeah, you're right. However, you guys were a little bit busy this weekend. We hosted the Spike Shumotation on the Greenspring campus. High school meet attracted over 5,000 people here in two sessions. Some of the best in the region. Just talk about that meet and how it went overall. Yeah, so I mean, it went really well. So we had two sessions. We had an AM session and an afternoon session. And like you said, probably over 5,000 people counting the runners and the fans were on campus. And 2,300 runners ran in all the races. So it was really, we had some good times, a lot of good feedback, and it seemed like a positive experience for all. Yeah, it's obviously great for the program to have that many student athletes on campus. Even if they don't decide to run in college, maybe they see Stevenson and see the campus and decide, this is a school they want to look more at. Exactly. Now looking ahead to this week, you guys returned to action. Another tough meet. You had to the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh University. A meet that's very, very well known. It has a mix of Division I, II, and III. There's three races. Talk about or discuss what you're looking to get out of this meet going against some of the top schools in Division I. And then even some of the top schools in Division III. Yeah, so there's almost 130 schools entered. We're not 100% sure yet what races we're in. But whatever race we're in, it's going to be a good opportunity for both the men and the women to be competitive. And again, just like Van Cortland, that was a hard course when we were at Van Cortland Park. This course is an average cross-country course. So it's really kind of that first opportunity for them to run some pretty quick times. And it's going to be really deep. I mean, Van Cortland was competitive, but it wasn't a deep field. I mean, this is going to be 400-plus runners in each race. So they're just going to be out there competing and trying to beat as many people as they can. Is a little bit of a preview made for the conference meet, where you have the whole 16, 17 teams rather than normally you race against 8, 9, 10 teams and get the conference meet, and all 17 schools are there. This rates to be a little deeper. Is that kind of a preview of that in terms of there's more runners on the course, so you have to kind of pace yourself and know when to make your move? Yeah, definitely. It's even more so for regionals and potentially nationals, because regionals, we have 72 teams at regionals in our region. So I mean, it's a good opportunity to get used to running in those big groups of people and just being competitive and getting out fast too. Getting out fast, but not too hard and then just running a good, hard, honest, even race the whole time. Yeah, absolutely. Well, Coach, best of luck on Friday. We'll look forward to seeing your results from there. For David Dan, I'm Greg Royce, and this has been the David Dan Show.