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Bad Day, Good Day - Making the Switch...

Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:10

By Morgan Johnson (for usatriathlon.org)

I have moments with all of the athletes that I coach where they reveal their potential in ways that I didn planned, he chose to use it as an opportunity to move toward success. Instead of sitting in his disappointment and frustration, he demonstrated the mental abilities of an elite athlete by focusing on the part he played in what went wrong, and how to make adjustments in his next qualification attempt. I am happy to say that he placed fourth in his division at the USA Triathlon Long Course National Championship only one month later, putting him well within the qualifying standards for the Long Course Age Group World Championships.

So how do we make the switch