Happy New Year: Message from the Executive Director
Happy New Year
Last New Years I wrote about how I have always found the start of a new year to be energizing. That it gives us the opportunity to reflect and focus on what we want to improve upon. And that this ritual of deciding on our resolutions, our goals, held true for me personally and was true for SRO. Usually, at the start of the New Year, we are more than half way through SRO’s season. We traditionally quickly transitioned from the students being off for the holidays to an aggressive “welcome back” into an intensive training for the remaining few weeks of the season. This year, with five months ahead of us, the Los Angeles Marathon now in late May, we have a different set of opportunities. And a different set of challenges.
As I reflect on the past year and look forward to the new one, I am thankful for SRO’s staff, volunteers, community partners, and our students. Perhaps, I am invigorated to start the New Year, because I have the knowledge that our collective efforts will produce another successful season. So, I will keep my remarks much shorter for now… as you will be hearing from me a lot more over the next five months.
Thank you for a great 2008! Happy New Year to you and your families.
"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential." - Ellen Goodman
- Spencer Hooper
Last New Years I wrote about how I have always found the start of a new year to be energizing. That it gives us the opportunity to reflect and focus on what we want to improve upon. And that this ritual of deciding on our resolutions, our goals, held true for me personally and was true for SRO. Usually, at the start of the New Year, we are more than half way through SRO’s season. We traditionally quickly transitioned from the students being off for the holidays to an aggressive “welcome back” into an intensive training for the remaining few weeks of the season. This year, with five months ahead of us, the Los Angeles Marathon now in late May, we have a different set of opportunities. And a different set of challenges.
As I reflect on the past year and look forward to the new one, I am thankful for SRO’s staff, volunteers, community partners, and our students. Perhaps, I am invigorated to start the New Year, because I have the knowledge that our collective efforts will produce another successful season. So, I will keep my remarks much shorter for now… as you will be hearing from me a lot more over the next five months.
Thank you for a great 2008! Happy New Year to you and your families.
"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential." - Ellen Goodman
- Spencer Hooper
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