On The Road Again

Sorry for the scarcity of
posts the last couple of weeks. I am near the end of a looooong road trip. Last
week I was in Boston for three days with a company I work with on the development of a
physiological monitoring system (More on that in a later post) and then three
days with Harvard women’s swimming coaching staff. Home yesterday and off to Ft Lauderdale
today (Short three hour drive) to do a Dryland Training school at the ASCA
Convention and another one hour talk on Thursday. Home Friday and finally actually
get the Venice girls play Friday night. I am trying to find a way to be more
productive on the road, but it seems at the end of some long days I am brain
dead, sometimes no energy even left to read. You will know I have this figured out
when I post daily when I am traveling.

Got an iphone in June, it
is a great tool for me. My ring tone is Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again.” I
tried for two months to download it, finally had to have my nine year old nieces do
it for me when I was in California. For me making music with my friends is
getting to hang out with and work with some sharp coaches who I can keep learning
from. I am working on a post/position statement on the Lost Generations of
coaches who have drunk the cool aide. Stay tuned, it probably will not make
some people happy, but the more I see the generation gap between those of us
who were trained as coaches and the lost younger  generation who are very internet savvy and
book smart the more I am convinced that we are due for the crash in the training that rivals
our current economic crash. You don’t learn to coach reading a book or reading
list serves on the internet, it is a passion and a commitment that I am not
sure some of the younger generations understand. Off to Ft Lauderdale!