Well, yesterday was the worst experience of my entire career! My girls choked at State and ended up 9th place after being ranked top 4 all season. My boys who have been ranked Nationally decided to run the worst race of their lives and instead of winning a State title and we ended up clear back in 5th place! Unbelievable! I was seriously considering retiring as a coach and just being the AD after yesterday.:) I have never had everyone of my kids do so terrible, and hope I never do again. I still can't figure out why either? We probably lost our spot to be in the Nike SW Regional Championships yesterday. I hope they will really learn from this experience and use it to make them better in the future.
I needed a stress relief, because of the big bummer over the kid's lack of effort. We did a practice and not many showed up this morning. Although some of the varsity boys showed up. I ran over to Rosecrest Park to meet them and then we did a loop out around the Cove pond and back (5.25 miles). I ran the first couple miles with Macy, who dropped by to console me on his break from UVU. Haag and Greg ran with me after Macy stopped to go potty and run back with the kids. I ran home from the park when we finished. 7:03 for the 8.5 miles. The run felt good and helped after my bummer day.
I have spent the last two years building this program at Herriman and yesterday was a big let down, makes feel like I have just been wasting my time with these kids in a way, but I hope I haven't. If they learn from this it can still be a positive, or at least it will be someday. They are the most physically talented kids I have coached and the absolutely weakest mentally and I am not sure what to do about that? I would think they would be a little more experienced, but maybe not. Also,I have decided it is time to start taking care of myself and getting myself back to where I am healthy and strong enough to compete again this next year, and that is what I am going to do.
Off to Lava Hot Springs now.
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