Happy New Year! New me. New you. Start habits not resolutions.
“No one wants to start the New Year and get worse during the year,” said my yoga instructor, Carmen, last week. I agree. We all want to get “better” at some level – at least it would seem that way with all the New Year’s resolutions to: Lose weight Get fit Eat right etc. The sad truth is that most resolutions are doomed to fail - as many as 90% fail if you believe some of the published statistics. Why do they fail? Maybe they’re too broad, too big, too undefined, too drastic. Resolutions can fail for any number of reasons. So rather than set a...
Read MoreHow to survive low moments in an Ironman, other triathlons or life in general
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ~ Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning ~ “Low moments” in a race — especially an Ironman triathlon with its 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile run — and in life are inevitable. So how do you get through them? Attach “meaning” to your race (and this applies to the rest of your life, too). In other words, ask yourself the hard question:...
Read MoreTraining for Rugged Maniac and other obstacle course run races
Looking for something a little different than the swim, bike and run of a triathlon, a few friends and I signed up for a Rugged Maniac race in Lake, CO in October. I had a lot of fun! Rugged Maniac is a 5km obstacle run race “designed by Navy SEALs” and is one of several new obstacle course events like Tough Mudder, Spartan Race and Warrior Dash that are sprouting up all over the U.S. A recent article for Outside Magazine states that last year as many as a million people ran obstacle races in the U.S. last year. So…what exactly is an “obstacle course...
Read MoreWhy climb up and down a mountain 5x on a Saturday? Well, why not…?
This past weekend, Mike Guzek and I ran up and down the Mt. Sanitas trail in Boulder five times climbing more than a mile vertically for a total of 15 miles. Why run up and down a trail five times? Well, why does a dog like to stick its head outside the window of a moving car? I honestly don’t know. The dog just does. I think we’re like the dogs in that regard. We’re both long time triathletes with a bunch of Ironman distance races under out belt so we like endurance activities. Mike had a found a website for Mt. Sanitas Records that showed record times for ascents,...
Read MoreWhat is excellence – at least according to Aristotle?
Aristotle once wrote: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” What are the habits that drive your actions…? Are these the habits that you want? If not, what are the actions you need to take…for 21 days*…to form the habits that you want? *Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People says that it takes 21 days to form a habit. Live life richly and without regret! David — David B. Glover, MS, CSCS Executive Triathlon Coach, ENDURANCEWORKS, LLC Director, the ELITE Project Author of Full Time and Sub-Nine:...
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