Challenges

  • Make Up Your Mind! (3) …Highland Games competition report

    I enter the strangest competitions sometimes. But that’s my personal brand, trying all the sports I can. I have sport FOMO, clearly. So here’s little more than a short, goofy photo reel of me at the Estes Park ScotFest athletics meet — aka, my first Highland Games competition. It’s a fascinating sport: throw odd-shaped stuff…

  • Make Up Your Mind! (2) …on performing badly

    I’ve tried lots of sports, some in earnest, but they don’t all result in success for me. Endurance sports have been uniquely cruel to my psychology over the years. Here’s a recap of the last straw! The “article” aspect of this is short, then you can enjoy a minimally edited copy of my post-race letter…

  • The Journey Continues

    I’m not on this training journey alone – and neither are you.

  • Can’t Go Home

    Can’t Go Home

    As the saying goes, “you can’t ever go home again.” Home for me must be that place where I was unburdened by the joy of coaching, untroubled by all the methods for improving processes at work, and uninspired by all the books in the world. Because barely 3 years after “retiring” from strength & conditioning,…