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How to use ‘waves’ in your training Periodicity When training for a particular race there are a number of plans you can choose from. It’s a bit like choosing a diet or a exercise program. Everyone has the guaranteed solution for you that will do the trick. Most of them do something but seldom is …
Leadership in times of challenge Over the past few weeks we have seen some challenging events in our community. And into everyone’s life, as they say, “some rain must fall”. These events can be macro events like stock market crashes or economic failures. These events can be personal like a job loss, or the end …
Around the lake Another Story. I would really like to be able to tell a different story about this race. I would like to tell that other story, the one I had been rehearsing in my head. The story of how I had beaten back a chronic injury, trained well, gotten fit, lost weight and …
Sapiens – belief in made up things One of the books I’m working through on my Kindle right now is called Sapiens, A brief History of Humankind, by Yuvai Noah Harari. This book made a big splash a few years back among the cognoscenti for its big thoughts. It’s a bit of a Trojan horse. …
How professional athletes deal with career ending injuries What happens to those thousands of athletes who are at the top of their sport and suffer a career-ending injury? What can we learn from it? I was drawn to this topic over the last few weeks by a malevolent pincer movement of two angry forces. The …
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