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Odd man out The power of different If you want to do something important you need to be comfortable with being the ‘odd man out’. Few things courageous or important happen in the middle of the herd. What are the challenges and opportunities of being the odd man out? What will you discover when you …
After the Apocalypse The afternoon sun slanted warm across the river’s surface. The water was high from the recent rains and a muddy hue swirled in the shallows. Early may flies prickled the surface here and there and lazy ripples hinted of fish and dorsal fins. A cottonwood tree trailed its branches into the flow …
Self-Study for Life The bigger you grow your island of knowledge, the larger the shoreline of what you don’t know is.[1] But that shouldn’t stop you from learning. All that means is that there is no end point to your personal growth. The more questions you answer the more, and better questions you create. I’ll …
Training report – 100-miler – from the front lines Saturday, I had 30 miles on the calendar followed by a 15 miler on Sunday. I was thinking about it all week. I wasn’t afraid of it, per se, but I was thinking about it. I didn’t think it would be too much of a problem. …
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Paying attention to your warning lights Catching yourself in the dangerous calm of a post-event slump There is a real emotional and physical hangover from any big event in our lives. Whether it is a graduation, a new job, the birth of a child or, for we amateur endurance athletes, a major target race or …
