I arrived home from training camp in Atlanta GA yesterday evening with my mind still buzzing about everything that I’ve experience and learned over the last 10 days. On last Thursday or Friday I recieved the instructions for this blog assignment geared towards providing important information for future racers about what it’s like to go through the whole training camp process.
Basically I can tell you whatever I want but I cannot reveal the inside details of the activities themselves.
What happens at training camp stays at training camp…
If you feel like there’s a disconnect, a lack of forthcoming information, it’s because there is. I understand and I feel your pain. My life is mapped out in a day planner. I know exactly what’s happening, when, where and at what time. I brought my day planner with me to training camp and did not open it once.
We were not given a day by day plan for the week. We were told where to be and what to bring about an hour or so ahead of time. Some things were constant, we had regular meal times and exercise was every morning at the same time, but for the most part the day held an element of surprise.
At first that was frustrating. It seemed unnecessary. But the more I thought about it that is exactly the way that it will be on the field where there are about a million obstacles to clear communication including language, cultural norms and different value placed on time. We in the west place a high priority on our time but our time is money attitude just isn’t shared in many other nations of the world.
And when you look a little deeper still God never gives us more than one step at a time. He wants to walk with us and guide us each and every step of the way. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like God cares about us and it’s frustrating not to have all of the directions but it’s at those moments when we find out what it really means to trust Him. And when we look back we realize that there was a bigger purpose all along and now that the picture is complete we find ourselves thankful for it.
