Good evening fellow coaches and students alike.
At the conclusion of administering a hard training session for my runners the other night and getting them ready for nats, something very luminous suddenly occured to me.
Marathoning, track, and cross country are the only sports where runners do not wear Jersey numbers on their game day performance outfits. I plan to change that. Here's why......
All throughout history, athletes have proven to be very superstitious people. Just look at tom cruise in the movie All the Right Moves. He always prayed and had a secret routine before the games that was s special to him. Look at Alan webb and how he would eat large bowls of ice cream prior to big track races. That was all part of his psychological profile and his athletic routine.
Well, Jersey numbers are the same way. Many many athletes have a special number that they wear during their whole career. Michael Jordan wore number 23. Walter Payton wore number 35. I wore number 22 in ALL of my sports and and even had my mom monogram a small #22 on my race day Jersey when I set all my records at western heights. So here's what I plan to do......
I will bring my runners into my PRIVATE coaching office, and I will sit them down 1 by 1 and ask them what is their favorite number. Then, I will personally take our race day jerseys to a local Taylor and have them Sioux the specified numbers into each running Jersey. This will inhibit each runner to compete with their special number of choice siouxed/monogrammed into theirJersey.
As I have proclaimed on letsrun for nearly 2 decades now, mentality dictates your physicality. It is our eccentric brains that are special wired like a custom Rouche mustang that enable and steer us in the direction of our true potential as athletes. It's not our genetics. It's not phoenotypical attributes. It is our MINDS and our BRAINS that make us a custom saleen mustang, and all of these other athletes are just normal Ford mustangs. This issue is no different.
I want to make absolutely CERTAIN that each and every one of you understands that I am willing to cross the depths of the abyss and inact EXTREME DESPERATE MEASURES to ensure that my athletes become champions. That includes aiding their mentality and superstitious individual personas in terms of giving them the POWER of racing with their favorite Jersey number on their outfits, both front and back. Helping their mentality will be the trick to MILKING every bit of dairy juice out of their physicality.
Mentality > physicality
-the430miler
Owner, teXXXas tanning salons LLC
Coach and adjunct professor
A university in san Antonio
