Week 5 - William Gates - Cycling/HWC

HALF WAY DONE! :)

Cycling Week 5

This week I focused on reaching out to international athletes trying to get them to apply to Lindsey Wilson College. It's been cool building relationships with people who live in other countries. It has also been a struggle because sometimes there have been some language barriers and issues with Admissions getting them the proper information to apply, which makes us (the Cycling Team) look bad.
I have also continued to work on the video special projects, along with reaching out with Lindsey Wilson Alumni to assist with rebuilding the Dual Slalom track and the BMX track before the Fall semester begins.
There was also another potential recruit from Florida that came to visit on Thursday. He came with his mother and a friend, so Coach and I gave him a campus tour and talked about the facilities. While Coach Grigsby went back to the office, I showed the recruit, his mother, and his friend the football facility along with our mountain bike racing facility, too. It was neat to see their reactions to getting a full tour of the campus and the surrounding facilities.
Still working on different things - it is a continuing process. Onward :)

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HWC Week 5

Week 5 of the internship meant that it was the week 2 weigh in for the Flab2Fab program. Around 40 pounds were lost among the 36 participants. It kind of upset me because there are some people that had been working their butts off and then some that you could obviously tell had not been working at all. I continued with the group workouts and ran into an issue last Tuesday with scheduling, but it was quickly resolved because it was not an issue that was difficult to deal with. I also sent out more sponsor/donation letters to try to build up the prize list for the winners/biggest losers.
Week 5 was also the first full week of the Couch-2-5K group. It's been successful so far, although the weather later in the week was a challenge to deal with since it was raining like a monsoon here, so the Saturday AM workout was just a core workout inside the HWC.
I'm hoping that people get their stuff together this week and that they realize this is not a game - that their lives are technically on the line if they do not pull it together. That's been my huge struggle, but everything has been going smoothly. Again, onward!