Coaches’ Blog

First and foremost…Thank you Marion.  This has been a year full of firsts and I am so glad to have shared them with you.  I could write for days thanking you, but in the end, it still wouldn’t do you justice. Secondly, Thanks Echo.  I completely expected you to drain my batteries and leave me […]

Alright, I know that this is supposed to be a blog about running, track, or other related stuff, but I think it’s time to talk about something that is very near and dear to my heart…donuts. I’m a self proclaimed, reformed donut addict and current donut connoisseur. I think it’s safe to say that I’ve […]

Wow, am I really glad that I wrote that last post when I did.  It came in incredibly handy as I was working to motivate myself in my greatest hour of need.  I actually said out loud to myself…”What would you say to an athlete in this situation?”  I’d never tried to consciously coach myself […]

As a student, am I a good role model or a bad role model for the team? I’m now 4 classes deep into my new program, well 3.5 classes deep which is what prompts this question. I’ve yet to finish a class on time yet in the last two years. I’ve taken an incomplete in […]

Wow, this is a crazy life we track coaches live.  Thursday/Friday/Saturday meets on 4 of 5 weekends is a tough one.  I guess I bring it on myself by having decathletes.  Speaking of the decathlon, I realized yesterday exactly how much of a love-hate relationship I have with that event.  If anything is going to […]

No regrets. That’s what it’s all about for me.  I realized this very early on.  My greatest regrets are things I never attempted, not my failed attempts. I probably realized this in 6th grade when I never asked out my crush, Jessie. Then Jason beat me to the punch. Who would have ever thought that […]

Wow.  It seems like only yesterday that I was writing up a post processing the whole year and making some new year’s resolutions.  I’m not 100% sure that I’m ready to do that again.  I may have to wait and do something like that next week.  I’ll be sure to make time. Ultimately, this winter […]

Wow, it’s officially been 2 months since my last post.  No excuses for that, but I also have no regrets.  I, and the other coaches, have definitely been working our tails off for the last couple months.  Months that included the XC/indoor cross over which is always a little hectic around the office.  Crazy, but […]

How crazy is our brain?  Really, it blows my mind how it can be so powerful and so flawed all at the same time. Yet somehow we even figure out how to even use our flaws to our advantage.  Lately, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time simply thinking about how we learn anything […]