Being Late
Hey all,
Listen. I get it.
The weather sucked, you are coming from work/class and had to work late, stopped by a train, spilled coffee on your brand new shorts and had to change them driving 60mph on the bypass.
But there are people that are occasionally late, and there are people who are perpetually late.
We aren’t talking Noah Calhoun late. He should have just been more proactive with Allie in the first place. Maybe do something more than send her letters Noah, now Fin is dead because he was hanging out with you in World War 2…You know what, whatever.
It’s the difference between a reason, and an excuse.
A Reason is a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.
An Excuse is intended to lessen or eliminate liability, accountability, or responsibility.
I’ll take both of them, but I don’t like bullshit excuses that happen perpetually.
For those of you who are perpetually late, try as much as you can, set your clocks forward, make a reminder, put it on your calendar. Do what you have to do to change the habit. It’s you that is not getting to your full potential of what you could possibly be getting done.
But for those of you who are showing up late, with or without a reason or excuse. The ship sails without you.
If you come in late, you may be missing the warm up, or the strength, and we may send you off to just row, or do a simple dynamic warm up. Don’t get your feelings hurt. We set our warm up to be custom at the start of class with the amount of people that are in the class at that time. It wouldn’t be a good idea for you to jump in cold to a strength portion of a workout – something simple is what we will prescribe for you when you get in.
Also, check the blog the night before you intend on coming into the workout, there is nothing worse than coming in 15 minutes late AND having no idea what the workout is.
We aren’t implementing a penalty, we aren’t going to tell you that you can’t do class. Just a direction to something simple and eliminating some elements of the workout to keep you safe.
We are also adding more classes periodically as we get the coaches around to do so, consider whether its better to shortchange your workout, or pop in for the next class instead. You can drive slower, and safer, allow time for changing, idle chit chat.
I know thats not always a possibility, but we are working on it!
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