The mood was relatively jovial when the 2015-16 Tar Heels assembled two weeks ago for the annual 12-minute run. The event is a conditioning exercise, but it’s not the most strenuous portion of the team’s fall conditioning, which officially begins this afternoon.
There was some lighthearted banter, the usual joking about who would “win” the run by being the first to complete the required six and a half laps of the track in the allotted 12 minutes.
Then Roy Williams made an announcement.
“We’re making it tougher,” he told the team just before the start of the run.