Yesterday, you may have have noticed Darrin, a level 3 NKT practitioner and a Certified Massage Therapist working on some of our athletes upstairs. Many of the athletes got a cue to breathe through their nose. While this nasal breathing may be new to some of you, this kind of […]
Click on the image for a larger version. As Gwyn has said in her articles about mental preparation, the easiest way to be calm during the race, is to be as prepared with the things you can control, like your gear as possible. The above picture is all the gear […]
If you haven’t already, please check out Gwyn’s guide to pre-race mental preparation. part 1, part 2 and part 3. Susan and I had a couple of good talks about race-prep after the workout on Saturday and with Kris (who has competed many endurance races including several Ironmans) on Sunday […]
As many of you know, Susan is a life coach. I bet many of you are wondering what a life coach is and what does Susan actually do? In a nutshell, a life coach is your BFF, your parents, your favorite teacher, and a soul-crushing drill sergeant all rolled up […]
Many people think that lifting heavier weights makes you stronger for the same reason that people think that eating less will allow you to lose weight, because it makes intuitive sense. After all, people who you consider stronger than yourself lift heavier weights than you, so lifting heavier weights must […]
Secret To Life Found on Facebook! This morning before getting ready for Susan’s Make Life Happen Seminar, I started to read a link titled Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood (there have been over 500 posts in less that 24 hours so I didn’t get all the way through) that my […]
We had a conversation about Alex Honnold and free soloing during the warm-up the other day. I am not sure that these were the videos that Curt saw, but never the less they are pretty cool if only for the time-lapse photography of Yosemite. Oddly enough, I just read an […]
I thought I would start a new type of post to add some variety to… well not too much, as I haven’t updated the blog lately. Actually, it is variety for me rather then you, my dear readers. Sometimes I just can’t get started and writing about something I read […]
I had an epiphany today. I was in the Dutch Goose with Susan and my mom after a great run with Streeter and his friend David at Huddart Park. I was looking around the Goose and I said “I want a job that I can sit around on Sunday afternoon […]
Welcome to final installment of Gwyn’s mental preparation tips for the OktobeRun (sign up here). In part one of the series, we talked about general physical preparation and deciding what kind of experience you want to have. In part two, we talked about developing your product and process oriented goals. […]