7 Lessons Learned from a Level-Up 2025 Triathlon Season
There’s an old saying: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Well… I may be an old-ish dog, but triathlon keeps proving that there’s always more to learn. What I love most about this sport is that the lessons are endless — sometimes painful, often humbling, always valuable. This year delivered some of my […]
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5 Steps to a Meaningful, Satisfying, and Joyful Life
To what do you aspire? Who do you want to be and what kind of life do you want to lead? To be happy, successful, impactful, rich, famous, loved? We all want to find and experience that elusive “Holy Grail” that we believe will fulfill our aspirations. However, as is commonly expressed in both ancient […]
Read MoreAre Your Expectations Helping or Hurting Your Young Ski Racer?
Setting expectations for your children is an essential responsibility of being a ski racing parent. Expectations communicate messages to your children about what’s important to you and establish a standard toward which they can strive. But expectations can be double-edged swords. They can be a tremendous benefit to your children’s ski racing and personal development, […]
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I Practice What I Preach: Reflections on the 2023 Triathlon Season…And Getting Ready for 2024
My 2023 triathlon season is now officially over. After the World Championships in Spain in late September, I had several races on my schedule leading to the end of this year, but I just wasn’t feeling them. So I decided to relax for a month or so (that doesn’t mean not training!) and just do […]
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Lessons Learned from Last Season That Will Make You Faster Next Season
With COVID-19 in our rearview mirror this past race season, ski racing in the U.S. and worldwide returned to some semblance of normalcy, with training and race opportunities again in abundance. Unfortunately, at the same time, another global problem, namely, climate change, has made training and racing more challenging, with too much snow in the […]
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I Practice What I Preach: Tempering Expectations
Let’s begin with an exercise: I don’t want you to think about a pink elephant. What did you do? Well, you thought of a pink elephant, of course. But don’t think about a pink elephant, don’t think about a pink elephant, don’t think about a pink elephant! Does that help you not think about a […]
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Life Shouldn’t Feel Like Life or Death
Imagine you’re about to present to your bosses and colleagues at work, take an exam in school, play in the finals of a tennis tournament, or ask someone to marry you. A man comes up to you, shows you a gun, and tells you that if you don’t succeed, he will shoot you dead. How […]
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Expectations Can Ruin Your Triathlon Race Day-#7
In the sixth in my nine-part series exploring obstacles that are blocking your path to your triathlon goals, I showed you how having an attitude of “nothing to lose” will serve you well in your triathlon efforts. In today’s article, I show you how the previous obstacles I discussed in my series can create interfering […]
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Set S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals for 2022
I just wrote an article about how to set S.M.A.R.T.E.R. goals for 2022. When you set effective goals for yourself, you motivate yourself to become the best [fill in the blank] you can be. This article can apply to sports, school, business, or life. You can read the full article here.
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Train Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #19-5 Keys to Quality Training
Episode #19: 5 Keys to Quality Training of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the last of six in a series that examines the ways in which you can maximize your training efforts and the benefits that you gain from those efforts. This episode will explore five practical ways in which athletes can […]
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