“You only control the effort, not the results.” Ryan Holiday Hello , Wow, how is it already May? The summer peaks are closing in quickly and I’m feeling very confident where the Tempo crew is in their process goals. […]
Nobody Is Going To Do Your Life For You
Author Cheryl Strayed on the trap of self-pity: “Nobody’s going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you’re rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune […]
“The dream doesn’t chase you back.”
I’m recovering from a long weekend at Sea Otter doing race support, some pre rides with athletes, a bunch of expo-ing, and fitting in a bike fit on the way home. As much as I walked around and […]
How’s Your Cornering?
“Effective practice isolates the skills that are necessary to produce results. Researchers like to distinguish between drills and scrimmages. Drills distort the game so as to work on a specific skill under maximum concentration. Scrimmages mimic the game to get […]
Chasing Your Own Dreams
“I would like to point out the importance of chasing your own dreams. You must live with whoever you become, and those around you have to live with that. It’s important to be who you want to be, and not […]
What’s Your Max?
I had an interesting realization yesterday while doing a hard session on Zwift that after twenty-some years of endurance racing and having “max heart rate” be some sort of nebulous concept, that it may be actually dropping enough […]
Is It Time To Fight The Good Fight?
“To fight the good fight is one of the bravest and noblest of life’s experiences. Not the bloodshed and the battle of man with man, but the grappling with mental and spiritual adversaries that determines the inner caliber of the […]
Going to altitude this summer?
“Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.” John Maxwell I’ve been tracking my oxygen saturation levels since 2010 when I go to altitude, more as a learning experiment than anything else. I went to some excellent […]
Plan B, C, and the mantra
“The hardest thing, after all the work and all the time spent on training and technique, is just being fully present in the moment.” George Mumford. One of the toughest things when working with an athlete is getting them […]
An opportunity to give back-Everesting For Emergencies!
Noah and his crew in Santa Barbara will be pushing their limits even deeper than before by attempting an Everesting attempt on a DIRT climb on April 25th. They are training hard and going deep into the Los Padres Forest […]