the part you're struggling with is that the quality disparity that results in them being way ahead can also make them get bored. year we won state in select soccer we beat some poor neighbor team 15-0. the starters are subbed off by half and we're throwing a nerf football on the sideline. in league we beat the team that ended up second in state 5-1 in front of a crowd of hundreds. before we pretend they sucked that team had several future college players. but so did we. the way to try to make a game out of it was to park 11 players back in the box and dare us to score through 11 bodies in front of the goal. in some of the laughers it's almost boring.
running XC and TF that year was more fun as it wasn't just being handed to me.
what you really need is a bol to your mclaughlin that keeps you honest. or maybe a season running the 400 instead of the hurdles, the 1500 instead of the 800.
to be fair, i get it, it cost him wins and money, but it takes some discipline to "edwin moses" it and just run off cycle after cycle doing the same thing. when we won state there were bigger things to chase, regionals, nationals, elite tournaments. what is the next big thing when you win the olympics? another one?
