Coaches’ Blog

Coaching has made me an expert in one thing over all else…rough patches. Every person on this planet has to weather our own personal storms at countless times in our life.  Life is hard.  It’s a test and it’s never an easy one.  Sometimes your test is overt and in your face.  At other times […]

I’ll start by calling BS on myself from the start here.  I’m going to use horrible statistics to debate horrible statistics.  I guess it’s a fight fire with fire type of day.  Let it be known that I hate stats.  They are way too easily warped to fit whatever theory or hypothesis you’re looking to […]

Because he’s more eloquent than I am, I’ll be paraphrasing much of Paulo Coelho’s words for some of this entry… A certain shopkeeper sent hi son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for forty days, and finally came upon a beautiful […]

One of the things that I’m sure my athletes are tired of hearing me say is that “life is all about minimizing regrets.” We can never eliminate them, but we have to work to minimize them. I don’t know if I’d want to eliminate them if I could. It’s the regrets that teach us. We […]

I have such a love/hate relationship with the Multi Events.  Some of my most enjoyable moments as a coach comes from the pent, hept, or dec.  They are those days when there are only 12 athletes and 12 coaches and people are competing in complete silence with now spectators or teammates around.  Granted these past […]

Why re my palms sweating? Because of this flight? Is it the air in this airplane cabin? It’s Thursday, why are my palms sweating? Wow, I’m so addicted to this. Deep breath. Inhale. Exhale. Be the rock. The calm above the fray. The logic amidst the emotion. Just be what’s needed of me. Seems like […]

25th time. Sitting on this bus right now, heading to Bowdoin. Just realized this is my 25th time driving to a NESCAC Championship meet. Things have changed quite a bit over that time Let’s see what I’ve learned over the years… #1 – Didn’t have a clue what I was heading into. A track meet […]

Well, it’s official. I’m a horrible blogger. Honestly, I’m not too upset about it. I do enjoy this blog quite a bit, but on my list of priorities, it is far from the top. Apologies to any avid followers out there (in other words, “Sorry Mom.”) Between trying to be a good father, husband, and […]

There are many versions of this story.  As this is a blog, I’ll go with the Cliff’s Notes version. Three blind men were shown an elephant.  They touched it with their hands to determine what the creature was.  The first man felt the trunk, and claimed that an elephant was like a snake. The second […]

Wow, February 17th, 2012 – that’s sad. Have I really not put anything up here in that long. That’s just irresponsible and unacceptable. Honestly, it got the point of “what’s one more day.” We’ve all been there with different things. And not to be mean about it, but we all probably had no excuses either. […]