Leadership at Mile 23 During an Ironman Run
One of my coaching clients, Peter, shared this story with me about an athlete on the run course of Ironman Arizona last weekend. Like myself, Peter is an advocate of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I continue to be impressed by Peter's ability to notice these small examples of selfless and self-initiated leadership where ever he goes. Here's Peter's story that I'd like to share with you: The leadership I witnessed at the 23-mile mark of the AZ Iron man was silent, anonymous, and worth telling the world. In fact, what I witnessed was...
Read MoreA Navy SEAL and the Ironman Triathlon
As a Naval Academy Graduate (Class of ’93) and former Navy submarine officer, I have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for the Navy SEALs. In my mind, they represent the ultimate in endurance fitness as they train for their missions on the SEa, Air and Land (SEAL). On the navyathletes.com website, which promotes the Navy and especially the Navy’s Special Warfare/Operations communities, I found this video with Navy SEAL Commander Keith Davids discussing his training as a SEAL and the parallels with training and racing an Ironman. In the video, CDR Davids makes a few...
Read MoreBegin with the End in Mind: Create and Face the Vision
If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know when you get there? You won’t. Stephen Covey’s second habit from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is to “begin with the end in mind.” A simple but effective mental preparation tool that I began using a few years ago to help me with my own triathlon goals is a Vision Sheet - a one page sheet, which summarizes my vision of what I desire to accomplish with my races. The vision should be aspirational – a pie in the sky, reach for the stars stretch goal beyond anything ever done previously. I...
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