Coach Elias Rangamar said designing the training program for the NMI athletes has been the toughest part of the preparation for the world-class tournament because it is caught in the time when the athletes are still tied up with important activities at school like graduation and church confirmations.
Rangamar admitted that it is going to be only this week that all the athletes will be spending complete time attending the training program.
The Oceania championship will open in two weeks.
With this challenge in mind however, Rangamar saw from among the athletes the determination to win as they make every precious time of the training day worth it.
“Some of them missed the practice due to a lot of school stuffs,” Rangamar said.
Because of interrupted training schedules over the past few weeks, Rangamar said the work load for the athletes is going to be less this week, at least for now for warm themselves up for succeeding practices that are going to get more rigid as the Oceania days come.
On Friday, the athletes will be have competition for time trials and going to be a longer practice that runs in two weeks.
The NMI athletes who will compete in Oceania tournaments are Tyrone Omar, Dexter Dillay, Ketson Kabiriel, Sylvan Rangamar, Jericho Cruz, Yvone Bennet, Yvette Bennet, Jacque Wonenberg, Jenequa Benavente, Li’amwar Rangamar, Lina Manalili, Matthew Mancao, Trevor Ogumoro, Greg Duatin, Reynalyn Sapong, Nick Gross, Jesus Iguel, Luis Iguel and Juan Iguel.
As the young athletes get closer to the competition, Rangamar said he is getting a little more strict particularly in time which is necessary to cope up with the time lost in the past few weeks.
“I wish I could go back to the start,” Rangamar said.
