Convenient accountability

Yet another excellent blog post by Wayne Goldsmith:

The Accountability Myth – Why the current Leadership models in High Performance Sport are failing (badly)

My favorite section:
"Accountability is like being pregnant: you either are or you are not.
If you accept a leadership role in a professional team then you are accountable: not half accountable, semi-accountable or fractionally accountable. There is no part-time accountability, no nine day fortnight of accountability with the tenth day off to not be accountable: if you willingly accept a role which includes accountability – then you are accountable.
But, a new accountability has emerged in high performance sport - it’s called Convenient Accountability or Conveccountability for short.
This new accountability – conveccoutability – is the accountability you have when you are not really accountable. It is being accountable only up until when things get a bit ugly, a bit serious (and a bit public), then it becomes an S.E.P. (to quote the late, great Douglas Addams) – a Someone Else’s Problem."

The man is right...

According to the founder of CrossFit, Greg Glassman, "Triathletes are sorely lacking in strength, speed, power, flexibility, accuracy, agility, and coordination."

And... he is right. Because in order to be a proficient triathlete, you really don't need the above abilities in above average quantity. It's called... specificity.

A small step for USAT

http://www.usatriathlon.org/blogs/london_calling/posts/1964-triathlon-trials

Winning

quote

"The challenge for me is simple. I always want to do well, always want to win. I don't need anybody else to establish the challenge for me." - José Mourinho

Part of the deal

A reminder by coach McMillan. Here's a great quote:

"I guess what I'm trying to say is that running [triathlon] is not a straight line of improvement and happy times. It has periods that are dark and troubling. But, and here is the message, you have to live through it. It's part of the deal. You have to buckle down and do the things you need to do to get through it. Sometimes that means taking a break and starting over. Sometimes that means focusing more on the non-running [triathlon] activities and sometimes it just means keeping on keeping on. Whatever your situation, just hang in there. We have so many great stories about how athletes come back from adversity. You can do it too."

I like this guy

I don't know who this guy is, but I like what he writes:

http://traintoplay.com/downloads/GURU-ISM%20AND%20THE%20DECLINE%20OF%20COACHING.pdf


Thanks to Coach Jesus Filliol for the link.