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Musings from a Coach
My thoughts on coaching, sports and life. New every week, in your inbox and here.


Indoor Season Is Our Head Start!
Clocks fall back on November 1st, and for many of us in the Northern Hemisphere that means dark mornings, dark evenings and a bike that suddenly lives on a trainer. I hear it every year from athletes: “I just can’t get motivated to ride inside.”
2 days ago3 min read


Train the MPI Way
A coach presentation from FFT Coaching recently got me thinking about the principles behind how we train.
Oct 152 min read


Let's enjoy the Suffer Fest!
This Saturday, October 10, is the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, and I want to encourage all of us to check in and watch.
Oct 73 min read


Sleep Is Training!
I've written about sleep in the past, but want to highlight it again as so many more athletes are now wearing devices that can track their sleep trends fairl...
Oct 14 min read


Send It!
Have you ever stood at a start line, or the edge of a decision, and felt your whole body ask you one question: are you really going to do this?
Sep 232 min read


Run Shoes: Yes, They Can Be Complicated!
Run shoes: yes, they can be complicated! Ever stood in a running store staring at a wall of foam, colors, and price tags, wondering if the $180 pair actually...
Sep 183 min read


What "Shoes" Does Our Bike Have?
I remember riding 21mm front and back sew-ups (tubular) tires on 700cc wheels with 19" inner wheel width.
Sep 93 min read


The Numbers Don't Know Where We Are
I'm in Park City right now with one of our elite athletes in the tail end of a few weeks of altitude training with a handful of genuinely hard sessions mixed...
Sep 12 min read


Performance Is Knowing Why
I've been sitting with a Jimmy Chin quote all week. It was in some email I received from a company, and I haven't been able to shake it. Here it is:
Aug 262 min read


Share Some Joy
OK, I'm going to ask you all to do a bit of work for this week's Musings....I want to share some joy, so I want you to watch Josh Kerr's record braking mile ...
Aug 191 min read


Let's Talk "Recovery Week"
Let's talk "Recovery Week"! I want to say up front, however, that I don't often write "recovery weeks".
Aug 122 min read


Training Without a Zip Code
Have you said or thought this in the past prior to a trip?
Aug 42 min read
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