After an 18 month hiatus, I'm coming back for regular blogging. I have no good excuse for not writing. But, I've set a goal of weekly posts. Hold me to it.
This brings up the subject of the power of goals. Spring is the season when we CSU coaches meeting with our athletes to review the results of the past season and to set goals for the coming season. We set outcome goals (i.e. race results) and also detailed process goals (i.e. the work we need to do) to help us reach the outcome goals. I met on Sunday with a second year J2 skier. He had a solid season this past winter and raced well at the NENSA J2 Championships. For the coming year he set the goal for himself of making the NENSA Junior Nationals team. I told him that he will need to lower his Double Pole Test time from 14:45 to 12:30 (among other improvements) to have the fitness to make the team. One tool to achieve this goal will be using his homemade ski erg (the Robolina - directions on www.csuski.com) each week to build his specific power. In the middle of the day on Monday I received an email from the skier with a copy of his training log showing that he had gotten up early that morning to use the Robolina before school. Setting the outcome goal of making JNs and the process goal of improved double-pole power motivated the young man to put in the extra effort that it takes to reach the top levels of the sport.
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