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Peanuts and Jockeys Writer’s block and the Monday deadline @cyktrussell peanut. jockey. blue angels. candy corn. popcorn. chips. flatulence. air soft guns. GO This is going to be a big travel week for me. Jetting down to Hotlanta for a big presentation then maybe over to Cali for another. Plus I’ve got to keep my …
Over-Training Symptoms How do you know if you’re working too hard? This is an interesting question. First, because overtraining can take a physical or mental form and is usually a little of both. Second, because how do you tell the difference between being tired – which is to be expected from training – and being …
Address to my 22 year old self This topic is difficult in many ways. First it seems to ask for something definitive, some over-arching summary or distillation of a lifetime’s learnings. This sets the mark too high. That’s an impossible set of advice to distill. Even if we could distill that advice it would not …
Stress on! I’m reading an interesting book on how extreme athletes use their ability to ‘get in the zone’ to be able to do crazy feats. It is becoming clearer in the research that what actually happens is that part of your ‘thinking’ brain shuts down, or is co-opted by the ‘implicit’ brain during times …
Pile o’ Sticks On consistency in action. What if you did one small thing consistently? What would you have a pile of at the end of the season? Living in New England we like to have a wood fire in our houses in the winter. This year I haven’t been able to have a fire …
