2013 Region poem

Yesterday the team won their 3rd region championship.  And it wasn't an easy win either. But going in they knew what they had to do and got it done.  Those of you who have been reading the blog for a while know that I always write a poem as the meet motivation for the Region Championships.  If you go back enough posts you can read all the previous ones. This year's poem, like all the rest, reflects the cadence, tone, feel, and heart of the team and the season. And if you've been following us this season, you know it's all about the relentlessness. 

RELENTLESS

It’s this team’s tradition that the meet of Region

Has always called for a poetic motivation

Where Coach gets the opportunity to reminisce

And there’s so much to say about this team

This season, whose glorious theme

Was divinely ordained, and proven: Relentless!

You took on more than anyone before

The mileage, the workouts, every chore

I gave you, my warriors, you didn’t fight against this

Each harder requirement, and every extra grueling set

I found, to my delight, could this year, actually be met

Producing times that could only be described as momentous

Though young, you must’ve considered yourselves men

Given, you thought you could handle level tens

Shockingly, you did, and it was my honor to bear witness

What I’ve made you do, could easily be called sadistic

Yet you disdainfully greeted each torture with a resounding ‘That’s it?’

When truthfully, my training’s been hell and I need your forgiveness

But I would never ask for it; as that would disgrace

This epic reputation you’ve chosen to embrace

Of being strong enough to take on the painfully horrendous

You have made it through hell; it’s a tale worth the tell

That somehow ya’ll have endured and survived it well

A feat that classifies as indisputably stupendous

You’ve been forced to make all but Cross Country a trifle

And it made me proud to call you 12, my disciples

Whose commitment to the theme of the team produced our successes

So like every team, every year, you’ve been forged into a family

But this year it’s become more: a far superior entity

Because you, this family, has proven to be: surely and truly Relentless!