Llegué a esto de ser entrenador por casualidad —seguramente sería más correcto utilizar el término causalidad—. Mientras la larga sombra del 92 empezaba a desvanecerse poco a poco, y sin saber mucho cómo, me encontré al frente de un grupo de niños y niñas enganchados de repente a este deporte.
Se trataba de un reto —imposible según muchos— y nos lanzamos —como tantos otros por ahí—, al atropello de intentarlo with little thought of consequences. Soon some of these tiny athletes came to the fore and demand improvements to sharing in their athletics and this started to become more than a hobby.
The juggernaut had started rolling, but no one really knew where we would and would stop on the road.
In 1999 an event happened that changed my conception of the role he had in this game.
had attended as a spectator at the Olympics Barcelona92, and it was no accident "Now if I have it clear," him to take tickets for the days of the decathlon. However, I was only one among the many spectators who enjoyed Peñalver medal.
In 1999 I traveled with some friends and most of the training group to Seville. This time it was a mere spectator. Now it was all a entrenadorcillo of running track people without wanting to live what that was highly competitive athletics. Eager to learn. "Fortunately these have not lost and still trying to learn every day.
De Sevilla brought me many lessons learned and some unforgettable memories, as having attended the 400 largest that has been so far-The emotion that flooded us all with the silence before the shot can not tell-or hear 50,000 people screaming 3 or 4 minutes before entering Anton as champion in the stadium. Many memories.
However the most important thing I learned in Sevilla is that those athletes, those heroes, those myths ... they were people. That day I knew where he wanted to go. I decided to work as hard as I could to get an athlete trained by me was one day in a championship like this.
I drove to work, and instead of looking outward, as others do, I looked inward. I thought "I believed in solitude, as they themselves would have believed, that two athletes who come to Sevilla had the potential to achieve that dream. "I thought silently, as if I had said then I would have dismissed as unrealistic, today might have to apologize to me, worked for years to achieve that goal. Year after year, step by step, leaving behind rivals insurmountable approached us dream dreams ... but finally dawns, and with the first rays of sun the dream fades ... surely continue his dream and make dream to others, but I woke up and for a time I suffered insomnia.
However, causality and chance play with our dreams so strange.
this year than I had anticipated quiet and easy, it turns out that the world championship in Berlin and an athlete-Shaped elsewhere for another coach, "came the group with the aim of achieving the minimum to attend the championship . Inviting me to participate in his sleep.
We trained hard and has not been easy. "Nothing is, nor in that of athletics or anything else. In the last competition got the mark to attend the championship and now it is up to us to attend.
Right now I close my eyes and memories appear, but I do not sleep, because now is not a dream, is real.
