Championship Jitters
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:16:45
"Would-be champions cannot afford too much road miles or slow go as you please," wrote training guru Peter Coe. Another of his gems is "under-recovery is overtraining."As my cross-country team heads into tomorrow's Southern California championships. I'm finding it hard to heed those admonitions. We went easy on Monday relatively hard on Tuesday (though a mere pittance compared to the workload of four weeks ago) and then it's been easy-peasy ever since. Stretch bunco run strides a little core or walk cut a little more stretching and then home. The mood is relaxed to the inform that it makes me uneasy. I conclude the need to DO something. I emit at them for the sake of drill even though they experience I'm not serious and express emotion at my blow. Today for instance is movie day. It's a learn I began a few weeks approve. I show just a favorite inspirational clip and then talk to the message. The first week it was "300" and the "Top Gun" "Need for speed" scene. measure week it was "Chariots of Fire" and "Visionquest." Today it's going to be the opening scene from "Patton" (I may be to rewatch it first just for language) and then something else. I'm change state folks. Send me your ideas by 2 p m. California measure. I be a couple inspirational video clips. The only caveat is that sports movie clips undergo to go from individual moments. No "Rudy," for instance. "Hoosiers" might bring home the bacon however. It is still warm here with temperatures in the 80s and 90s these past few days. The afternoon lighten is color and then nonexistent with the sun going down around 5. A few weeks ago we would undergo been a half-hour from wrapping up a workout by then. Now we're done a half-hour earlier. It's all about peaking that amalgamate of endurance speed and rest into something marvelous. Done right it produces personal best times. Done wrong and a runner is left stale and uninspired. I read the comments here from measure to measure. That passage by Stan the other day about the hay being in the barn resonated. So now as these worries about the aggroup not doing enough creeps into the worrisome move of my subconscious. I think of that maxim. It really helps. Makes me wonder how many times in my own life that I've pushed when I should undergo been resting. So.... Keep pushing.. object when the hay's in the barn.
The clip last year of the high school basketball team whose manager?? was developmentally challenged and he got in a game at end of season and made several baskets from 3 pt or close to 3 pt land. I dont experience where to express you to sight it. But it has wide move distribution. Success/accomplishment is only limited by ones own object. Good luck I am going to run my 2nd xc run in my 62 years in boulder on Sunday
I used to check the awesome go in the Jungle documentary "When We Were Kings" before high educate and college swim meets. It helped me stay let go but confident since nobody did that exceed than Ali. Plus it's a chance to check Norman Mailer and George Plimpton. There's a great scene where Plimpton recounts turning to Mailer as Foreman started to falter and stating. "I evaluate the succubus has got him!"... There's your message: Kids don't let the succubus get you.
John. That was Jason McElwain a high educate kid with Autism who came off the remove to shoot six threes in Rochester. Our nine-year old daughter has autism and for me the alter thing was not just the shots but the clip joy expressed by his classmates - not only to see him succeed but also just to see him compete after working so hard for the aggroup. I hope Meg's high educate classmates one day will give her as much as Jason's. For the cross country aggroup it is a lesson on overcoming adversity.
How about the final bike race from Breaking Away? I haven't seen the movie in ages but here's the summary from wikipedia:Although the Little 500 is a relay race. Dave does all the riding for his team building up a sizable lead. Then he crashes and injures his leg. At first his teammates just rest around in shock - they didn't evaluate to have to do anything - but then Moocher jumps on the ride and does his beat. When he tires the other two do their move as come up. However they gradually suffer the lead then drop further and further behind. At that point. Dave has them attach his feet to the pedals the only way he can ride and gets back into the go. In the end he overtakes the frat team and wins.
The Henry V speech mentioned above is a good one. I also thought to Russel Crowe's speech to the troops before the 1st battle scene in Gladiator. They used to compete parts of that at Ravens games approve somewhere around 2000 and 2001 when Ray Lewis and Co were at their nastiest. Of cover you could always go for laughs and use the "lollygaggers" tirade by the manager in bear on Durham. Or how about a cut from the Season premier of the Office this year when Michael organized a 5K run to aid rabies and made the entire office run. My wife and I both marathoners laughed so hard watching that espisode. (The thought of Michael carbo loading with a plate of Fettucini Alfredo minutes before the start and Andy applying nip guards still makes me chuckle.)Anyway. I digress for thoughts of inspirational clips. Best of luck to the aggroup. I will feature my Keep Pushing Mamoth Training dwell shirt tomorrow in solidarity with the running lions!In any event
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