Coaches’ Blog

I’ve realized that I’m not much of a blogger.  I don’t write every day, or every week for that matter.  I really wait until something calls out to me.  I hope that makes it more worth while for you to read this.  I try not to post any pointless filler just for the sake of […]

This intraweb thingy has changed everything.  Now I realize that only a part of my life has been sans-internet, but that doesn’t stop me from noticing how much this thing has changed everything.  Yeah, you read these “internet is the devil” or “internet is the savior” articles all the time, but what has it done […]

“Why do we do what we do?  Why do we push myself to the edge each day?  Jut to step back and put ourselves there again the next day.  Why do we welcome the pain, agony, and struggle?  I’ll tell you why.  It’s because every Saturday we get the answer to the ultimate question.  Will […]

Throughout the year, there usually aren’t too many weekend’s like this one.  Three consecutive track meets, all yielding positive results, yet still showing so much room for improvements.  Friday night pentathlon, Saturday Bowdoin Invitational, Sunday High School Elite meet – over 24 hours of track meets in 3 days.  And yet I woke up on […]

We have got to fix this.  Every big invitational has become a huge landslide of who’s coach will lie them to the fastest seed.  We’ve talked about this as coaches and we’re still struggling to find a way to combat it.  Ultimately, there probably won’t ever be a viable way to police this without some […]

Okay, so I’ve dropped the ball with this blog lately.  Actually, that’s putting it nicely. I’m more like the quarterback who dropped the ball, kept kicking it as he tried to pick it up, and then eventually kicked it out of the endzone for a safety.  Well maybe I’m not that bad, but I’m somewhere […]

It looks to be an even more exciting year than ever in New England track.  It has been 16 years since Tufts University has gone into a winter season as the defending champion.  The real question is – Does that change anything?  I would like to say “no” but it would be one of the […]

I’m sorry that it has taken me so long to get another rambling up on the blog since regionals this past weekend.  We are amidst some of my favorite weeks of the entire school year.  For these two weeks each season, the indoor and cross country seasons overlap.  Sure, that means that there is a […]

It really is moments exactly like this that makes my job so amazing.  We are now less than 12 hours until the gun for the New England Championships.  So many questions.  So many unknowns.  So many variables.  So much fun.  How many people really get the opportunities to do something like this in their life. […]

Saturday marked the passing of another NESCAC XC meet.  I’d have to say that this was one of the best in recent years.  The course was in great condition thanks to the work of the Pineland Farms staff and the Bates coaches.  Thank you all.  But the rarest of things happened…we had amazing weather for […]