{"id":217,"date":"2008-11-14T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-11-14T10:42:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:42:45","slug":"how-to-set-up-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Track and what&#8217;s important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/14\/sports\/othersports\/14haverford.html?_r=1&#038;sq=haverford&#038;st=cse&#038;oref=slogin&#038;scp=1&#038;pagewanted=print\">article<\/a> a lot; I love the idea that a small, liberal arts college can have a coach who creates a program where &#8220;&#8230;with about 500 men at Haverford, Tom has to get 1 percent of the male student body to be among the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best 50 runners. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insane.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For teachers, though,  I&#8217;ll use these comments as a starting point for a discussion:  <\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was one of those far from exceptional high school runners who arrived at Haverford and was swept along by the program and Tom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s teachings,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said J. B. Haglund, who as a senior in 2001-2 won the Division III championship in cross-country, 5,000 and 10,000 meters. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I remember one day seeing Marcus O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Sullivan on the track doing a Tom workout, and <em>I remember that Tom spent as much time working with the slowest kid on our team that day as he did with Marcus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whoever you are, if you want to come and work hard, Tom has time for you. He says this over and over: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>The team is only as strong as the commitment of the least-accomplished person on the team<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this article a lot; I love the idea that a small, liberal arts college can have a coach who creates a program where &#8220;&#8230;with about 500 men at Haverford, Tom has to get 1 percent of the male student body to be among the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best 50 runners. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insane.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For teachers, though, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=217\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Track and what&#8217;s important<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-3v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}