Coaches’ Blog

I may be a hurdler and find the races that Xiang and Robles put together unbelievably impressive; however, that in no way means that I can’t be absolutely amazed by what Gebrselassie can do.  Sub 2:04, are you kidding?  Simply running a 1:02 1/2 marathon is scary, but to then negative split and run a 1:01 […]

What if you were a recruit and I said that I felt I was a better XC coach because I had never run XC in my life?  You’d probably laugh uncomfortably as you tried to pretend that I was making a bad joke…well, I’m not.  I honestly believe that one of my greatest strengths as […]

I realized the other day that my life seems to be periodized right along with our training seasons.  It functions in weekly microcycles, month long mesocycles, and season long macrocycles.  It even has the transition periods mixed in from time to time.  It was only after a hectic week of preparing for our home XC […]

So you always hear the stories where the athlete overcomes obstacles, injury, death, etc and still succeeds at the highest level.  However, it is much rarer to hear about the athlete who couldn’t ultimately overcome their limitation to still step upon the medal stand.  Sometimes though, those are the stories that really move you.   […]

Yes the coverage stunk for the 2008 Olympics.  I was expecting so much more.  After watching every heat of every race at the Olympic Trials, I was horribly let down by the NBC coverage for the Olympics. It looked so promising when we found out every single detail of Michael Phelps’ life.  I assumed that […]