~:[CH15 - Day 129]:~ Progress
It's easy to get overwhelmed, especially when you're among the crowd in division II, however, I always tell my athletes to just focus on themselves and do what they can do. Some can do it, some get intimidated before it even begins. Regardless, my focus is progress. How have you improved? Do you go out and challenge? At the end of the day, race after race and event after event, we had the same result, "I didn't qualify," but it wasn't a disappointing day. Of course, it would have been nice if my discus thrower didn't scratch, as he threw long enough to qualify, but regardless if he moved on or not, I would be proud of everyone who went out there and gave it their best. My vaulter and high jumper nearly had a new PR, my 200m runner got some experience as a freshman, and my distance runner broke the 2-minute barrier by 0.01. There were are a lot more great stories, but the best thing is to see them progress. They learned through the experience and know what it takes in the future to get better. We ended up scratching the 4x400m for various reasons so we ended up heading home a lot earlier than expected. We enjoyed the mall together before heading home and with that our season had ended. This was our last year in our current league, so we'll see how things go next year, but at least for now, we know we can applaud ourselves because of the progress we made.
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