Category: Coaching
Listen: Cycling 360 Podcast on Racing Wisely
If you like to listen to folks in a jolly mood talk about bikes, coffee, and bikini bottoms, you’ll love this Cycling 360 podcast on doing your best in your race or cycling event! Darryl, Victor, and I talk about race planning, preparation, and execution, with a few detours.
Excerpt from Racing Wisely: Tips for Racing Wisely
There’s a robust excerpt from Racing Wisely at Trail Runner, complete with a very kind introduction. Time trial racing means getting to the finish line in the shortest possible time. But to do that, you may need to go slow, especially at the beginning, so that you have enough energy to carry you all the way through…
Listen: Runners Connect Podcast on Racing Wisely
I had a fun time discussing Racing Wisely with Will from the Runners Connect podcast—we covered a wide range of topics, from intention and goals to his meaningful PR in the 5K in a high school cross-country meet. Do you need a step-by-step guide for minimizing the stresses that surround a race? That’s what this…
Excerpt from Racing Wisely: Wise Mental Skills
Please enjoy this excerpt from Racing Wisely, online at Competitor Running today. Yoga students will recognize the approach outlined here, as will experienced endurance athletes. I hope it’ll inspire you to pay attention to your form and breath, to sharpen your focus, and, frankly, to buy the book, which you can be reading in its…
Download Now: Racing Wisely
It’s here! At least, the e-book is: you can achieve instant gratification toward long-term satisfaction in your sport by downloading the e-book edition of Racing Wisely. It’s just like the print copy will be, without taking up space or trees. For Kindle, visit Amazon. You can also read online using Kindle. For all other versions (Apple iBook,…
Download: Racing Wisely Documents
Racing Wisely, my latest book—available soon!—helps you think through every aspect of race day, from choosing the right goal race to packing. The questionnaires, worksheets, and checklists below are explained in full detail in the book, but I’m sharing them with you now in hopes they will be useful as you focus your goals and plans. Here…
Coming Soon: Racing Wisely
Thanks to all of you for sharing with such self-effacing good humor your stories of race-day disasters! Several of them are featured in my new book, Racing Wisely, which will be available in mid-August. (Sign up for my newsletter, or follow me on Twitter or Facebook, to be notified the moment the book is available.)…
The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, Japanese Edition (リカバリー ─アスリートの疲労回復のために─ )
What a treat and surprise when this came from my publisher in today’s mail! The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, aka リカバリー ─アスリートの疲労回復のために─ in Japanese! As with the Spanish edition, this carries the graphs and photos from the original English edition, which is good, because that’s the only thing I recognize other than my name. The…
Share: Racing Lowlights and Highlights
Several of you have already shared wonderful (and wonderfully awful) stories of good races gone bad—crashes galore, broken glasses, broken noses, missing the start, missing the finish (!). (I’m working on a piece on the subject, about which more soon.) Any race—running, paddling, kids’ fun runs—is game. If you have a story to tell, I’d…
Sage Advice: Moving off a Plateau
Last night, I spoke to a fantastic group of women at Great Outdoor Provision Company in Chapel Hill. Most were beginner triathletes and triathletes-in-training preparing for the Ramblin’ Rose races, a series of beginner-friendly triathlons and running races staged by Endurance Magazine. (In the photo, my face, captured midsentence, echoes the terrified expressions some of them…
“Race” Report: Francesca’s Unvitational Forty-Miler
As I alluded to in my Active Yogi post today but didn’t explain clearly on social media, even as I was posting photos last weekend, I traveled to Memphis last weekend for a special event: Francesca’s Unvitational Forty-Miler. (Unvitational, as virtually no one wants to be invited to run 40. And for the acronym FU40.)…
Event: Girls’ Night Out at GOPC Chapel Hill
Join me (that’s not me pictured above!) at Great Outdoor Provision Co. in Chapel Hill on Thursday, May 9, 6:00–7:30 p.m. An evening of high fives, great clothing, and practical information to get you psyched for the Ramblin’ Rose Triathlons (Raleigh’s race is May 19, Chapel Hill’s is October 6). Bring your questions and get psyched for your…