Coaching Wants and Personal Goals

What I want from a coach:

• Someone who knows what he's doing
• Someone who knows how to motivate
• Someone who has a good rapport among other athletes
• Someone with whom I get along
• Someone who does what he tells me to do
• Someone who knows how to help me improve
• Someone who has the drive to succeed
• Someone who serves Christ
• Someone who is in the shape I want to be in

Goals:

• Olympic triathlete: 2016
• - Olympic distance
• - Draft legal
• - Check times from 2008
• Ironman Kona qualifier: ASAP
• - Iron distance
• - Check times: between 10h and 11:30

My strengths as an athlete:

• sprinter
• can maintain same pace
• self-motivated
• desire to succeed
• drive to win

My weaknesses as an athlete:

• Not fast at endurance distance
• Not fast-paced in general
• Probably heavier (and with a different body type) than most other athletes
• (All the above CAN be overcome!)

My needs--how I should be improving:

• Increase speed on run
• Climb hills better on bike (don't get dropped)
• Swim faster (if I'm not out of the water with the lead group, I won't ever catch up, especially in draft-legal races)