Head Track & Cross Country Coach @ Central Catholic High School & Providence Catholic School / US Army Retired - MP
San Antonio, TX
Joined July 2021
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It all starts with correct training. If you train for the marathon correctly, have a smart appropriate race plan, they you shouldn’t be running hard until the last 10k!
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Ever sit back and ask yourself, ‘what kind of impact am I having on my friends? My team? My family?’
If the answer isn’t what you’d expect from someone else, change it. Your impact is driven by your decisions. Make a positive impact.
Proof that specialty retail marketing works!!
Running is supposed to be one of the cheapest sports in the world.
Anyway, I decided to calculate how much it cost me to run the Chicago Marathon.
Including the full retail value of EVERYTHING I was wearing on race day.
RACE DAY GEAR
Garmin watch: $1,199.99
Oakley Meta Vanguards: $499
SOAR racing singlet: $295
ASICS racing shoes: $269.99
Bandit half tights: $125
Handheld bottle: $30
Running socks: $18
RACE DAY FUELING
7 SiS gels: $18.69
Maurten Bicarb: $17.50
2 LMNT packets: $3
Electrolyte drink mix: $2
RACE WEEKEND
Flights for 2: $1,593.60
Airbnb (3 nights): $970.25
Marathon entry: $266
Race insurance: $42.56
Uber/Lyft: $195.45
Public transit: $7.50
3-day carb load (estimated): $100
MarathonFoto: $94.95
TOTAL OF EVERYTHING LISTED: $5,748.48
You can judge me for the $1,200 watch, but I’ll defend the $94.95 race photos every single time.
Running is free, though.
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This should be required viewing for every HS athlete; no matter what sport. It will NEVER be easier to make changes in your life than it is in HS. NEVER. Decide where to go. Take action today.
ORDINARY EXCELLENCE: The story of Grant Fisher youtu.be/4Paq5tydnNA?si=rgQ2… via @YouTube
First ever District championship for our middle school girls. Coach, Gabby and Coach Christina have built such a good program. One 8 grade girl, three girls that are in seventh grade 3 girls that are in sixth grade. The future is bright!
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Congratulations to our Central Catholic Golf Team for winning this year’s Spirit Cup against Antonian. Let’s go Buttons!! #wlh
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Things you learn in Texas:
1. The guy in the F-150 is worth a lot more than the dude in a Mercedes.
2. The small business owner from a state school is smarter than the majority of Ivy League grads.
3. There’s more racism in Connecticut country clubs than in rural honky-tonks.
4. Rednecks are more honorable than investment bankers.
5. The man who looks like he can’t afford the tab could buy the building.
6. They don’t ask for a deck before the meeting.
7. Prep school is where they send the problem kids.
8. If he’s wearing dusty boots, a 2XL Magellan shirt, a gold Rolex, and has a bulletproof case on his iPhone 12, you’ve already lost the negotiation.
9. “How’s business?” is a real question. “What do you do?” is a New York question.
10. Tips are bigger and egos are smaller.
11. A handshake still closes deals that a term sheet would kill.
12. The wealth is in real estate, oil, or a company nobody in Manhattan has ever heard of.
13. Your wife or daughter will never struggle finding help to change a tire.
14. Nobody asks where you went to college.
15. A weekend invitation to their ranch makes you part of the family.
We have a little inside joke on my track and cross-country teams. I asked them “what color is the sky?” They’ll reply “purple” because I said it’s purple. This morning one of my boys posted this and said “see guys, Coach is right”
