“Train Hard, Rest Harder, Race Hardest…!”
“Train hard, rest harder, race hardest…!” - Olaf Sabatschus, professional triathlete and my triathlon coach Sage advice from one of the best long course triathletes in the world. However, the tendency for many athletes is to: “Train hardest and race hard!” and ignore the importance of the “rest” component. The result is a sub-optimal race performance. Not intentionally of course. No one wants to race poorly, but it’s an easy path to go down by focusing too much on the training and not enough on the rest component. What do I mean by focusing too much...
Read MoreThe 4-Hour Workweek: a Must Read for All Time-starved Triathletes (and Others)
“Thanks to Tim Ferriss, I have more time in my life to travel, spend time with family, and write book blurbs. This is a dazzling and highly useful work.” - A. J. Jacobs, editor-at-large of Esquire Magazine and author of The Know-It-All At a holiday party in December, I was telling telling a friend about a few of the great books I had recently read like Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Man’s Search for Meaningby Viktor Frankl. “These are life changing books,” I said or something to that effect. “Well, I have a book...
Read MoreSigns, Signs, Everywhere There’s Signs…
“Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs F******’ up the scenery, breakin’ my mind Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign…” - Tesla, Rock Band I snapped a picture of this sign with my phone today during my bike ride from my parent’s house on Lake Keowee, SC, up Rte 130 almost to the border of North Carolina. It’s a simple sign that indicates an intersecting road ahead to the left. When I reached the sign today, my choices were explicitly clear. I could: (1) turnaround, (2) continue straight or (3) change direction down...
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