Daily Challenge 3/2/2012

This week we passed the 150 day mark to the Games. Wow - the days seem to fly by. The real challenge for me as a coach and my athletes is to stay in the moment as we go through this journey. The days tend to blend together. We are working hard and sometimes it seems as though a week goes by with a blur. However, we must remain in the moment and try to get as much as we can out of each and every workout.

This is the only way that we will compete for the gold in August. We can not waste a day of training. Each one of these athletes are amazing at what they do and yet each one has the ability to grow and improve. That is our job as coaches to challenge and teach them to grow, to change a habit (sometimes even on a very fundamental skill), or to learn a new technique (like a new fake), or perhaps just to learn patterns of movement of our defense or offense. There is much to learn and the time is not going to stop. As Coach Wooden once said “make everyday your masterpiece”. It is a challenge, but that is our goal. To make everyday the best we possible can and get the most out of ourselves and each other.

Today we are heading out for a team building activity. We are going to get some training from our friends at the Navy Seals. This one will not be a rough as our training was with them in 2008 when we spent a half day at the obstacle course at the Seals training base. Today we are going to a shooting range and learning from the Seals sniper team about how to make the critical shot. It should be a good exercise for us and obviously an important lesson. Off to the range...


See you at the pool.

Coach