“Your son is getting an F in physical education” was the
story my wife shared with me this morning.
She was fresh off “parent-teacher meetings” last night. Surprisingly, both parents and the failing student
showed up! That doesn’t happen very
often.
How does a freshman in high school fail PE? It’s rather easy if you don’t show up and dress
up. Must be present to win!
How is this story related to our NCCF Team Specialized
Juniors? Well, besides some cyclocross
racing, we are into the “off-season”, or put differently “between seasons” which
makes it’s the perfect time to reflect on what went right and what you should be
worked on. We have been in this
assessment cycle for the past month and we’re getting ready to move into the “Goals”
phase. This will be a deep dive into what
the juniors want out of themselves and their teammates. We’ll take the assessments and goals into our
December team camp to ensure we are on the same page, to ensure what we are
shooting for is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (S.M.A.R.T). Going through the assessment and goal setting
process is invaluable to our team and itself is an exercise to bring us
together. The juniors are not fond of
the extra time required when they might want to relax with friends and take a
break from the bike, but it is completely worthwhile!
A special thanks goes out to every parent that appropriately
pushes their child to be all that they can be.
The parents of the “F” student didn’t give a care about their son
failing. As you might imagine, I get pretty
fired up about this kid wasting our tax payer’s money –and- my wife’s time and
energy. Thankfully bicycle racers are very goal driven.
Fact: none of our junior teammates are failing any of
their classes!
Cheers, Larry Nolan, NCCF
Team Specialized Junior Team Director
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