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Gale Bernhardt
in response to: Trihardist
Congrats on the job change.
I can only speak for myself. People should never confuse my personal athletic ability with the ability of those I coach. The people I've coached, and continue to coach, have athletic ability that far exceeds my own.
My athletes like to know that I'm active, but are happiest when they are making athletic progress - going faster or longer.
I think your athletes will respect you as a coach if you are helping them improve ~
bettyjean
I've been asked that question all my life. Or, how about this one? Why do you run for so long? Why do you work out so much? ...followed by "you're going to hurt yourself" They funny thing is, these questions and statements of concern usually come from people who don't work out a bit. Actually, that is not always true; a good friend of mine told me that it was unusual to work out as much as I do. I told him that believe it or not, there are people just like me in the world, and I see them every morning at the gym. Then I smile and confessed, "the funny thing is that we're always talking about how strange people who don't work out are". (wink)
Gale Bernhardt
in response to: bettyjean
Good one Ms. M. ~
That's a good answer.
I just transitioned from a bachelor of arts in English Literature to a position as a multisport coach. I've only been racing for two years, and was almost totally sedentary before college, so sometimes I feel like I'm training to earn the continued respect of my athletes.