Participants of our YPF Convention panel (photograph through Bobby Gavin)
By way of Oscar Logan, YPF member and Legislation and District AAC athlete
On March 9 the second one Athletics Consider Scotland Younger Particular person Discussion board Convention was once hosted on the Emirates Area in Glasgow.
Two years after the inaugural convention, the brand new cohort embraced the day’s theme: Inspiring the Subsequent Era.
The Convention opened with an deal with from the chair of Athletics Blogs, David Ovens, who offered the YPF to the room and set the degree for a productive day.
This was once temporarily adopted through two marvel movies from Laura Muir and Eilish McColgan.
Laura centered at the significance of verbal exchange and difficult paintings in turning into an elite athlete, acknowledging the difficulties skilled when transitioning to college.
Due to this fact, Eilish candidly mentioned the demanding situations social media gifts with admire to an athlete’s frame symbol, pithily mentioning that ‘running fast is not a number on a scale’ . . . slightly consideration must be put on sleep and correct fuelling.
Photograph through Bobby Gavin
Robert Hawkins then took the degree to provide a temporary presentation in regards to the construction of training his sons. Callum then joined his father for a Q & A consultation led through YPF member Mhairi Ballantyne.
Robert and Callum spoke back questions relating to standard coaching load, rehab procedure, and coping with setbacks, with Robert memorably answering to not fear an excessive amount of as ‘you never lose talent’.
After a brief refreshment damage, the day advanced into a chain of workshops. Pamela Robson and Maria Lyle delivered on inclusion in athletics, showcasing the growth made in Scotland for Para athletes being serious about the entirety from championship races to heat climate coaching.
Visitor presenters from SAMH took level on a chat surrounding rigidity – each inside and outdoor athletics – providing quite a lot of grounding tactics to handle it.
Photograph through Bobby Gavin
The afternoon persevered with every other spherical of insightful workshops and focal point workforce periods which was once adopted through an unbelievable panel of Olympic and Paralympic athletes, that includes Derek Hawkins, Maria Lyle, Lynne MacDougall, and Ben Sandilands.
YPF member Katie Sandilands led an instantaneous Q & A sooner than opening the dialogue to the ground. Subjects as various as excellent coaching conduct, Derek Hawkins and his rubber duckie menagerie, and Lynne MacDougall pertaining to recommendation she had won from a coaching spouse – in her absolute best Scouser accessory –‘It’s simplest working!’.
I stuck up with Lynne MacDougall after the panel to invite her about her impact of the day.
‘I was really quite impressed with all the young people,’ mentioned Lynne.
‘They really seemed quite knowledgeable.’
Lynne went on to focus on being pleasantly shocked at being surrounded through such a lot of passionate younger individuals who cared about athletics . . . and that it was once she who was once finding out from them.
The entire ATS Younger Folks’s Discussion board meet at Convention with Callum Hawkins, Robert Hawkins and Maria Lyle (photograph Bobby Gavin)
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