PERSEVERANCE

I have been doing a lot of thinking about where we are as a team and I have been proud of the improvements we have made in the past two weeks... However we are coming up just short.  My wife sent me this story about ultrarunner Dean Karnazes along with some quotes; she does have to live with me after all so she tries to keep my spirits up, which is GREATLY appreciated... Short Story....

In junior high, Dean Karnazes met Soap McTavish, a track coach who became Karnazes’ mentor and introduced him to the appeal of long-distance running. McTavish's basic running instructions were simple: "Go out hard and finish harder." Using this motto as a basis, that season Karnazes won the one-mile California State Long-Distance Championship held on the Mt SAC track. At the end of the race, Coach McTavish commented: "Good work son, how'd it feel?" To this Karnazes replied: "Well, going out hard was the right thing to do. It felt pretty good." The coach replied: "If it felt good, you didn’t push hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell." A week after the race, Karnazes' father's job was transferred to San Clemente. These were the last comments the coach ever said to Karnazes, who has stated that he lives by these words to this day.

GO OUT HARD AND FINISH HARDER!

This is exactly what we speak about EVERYDAY: Start Fast, Play Hard, Finish Strong... Today leave everything you have on the field... What you keep you lose forever.

REMEMBER WHY YOU PLAY!

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP!

WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH HELL KEEP GOING.

-WINSTON CHURCHILL

AND I COULDN'T RESIST THIS ONE...

YAMANASHI ALWAYS PERSEVERED!!!

LET'S GO GET THE WIN THAT WE HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR, FOR SO LONG!

WIN THE DAY!