Ambition and Balance – The Tightrope Type A Athletes Walk
If you work a normal non-pro-athlete job, training and racing is supposed to be a fun outlet… Right? Right?! Coming off of a weekend where I was relatively lazy with...
How to Support a Partner in a Big Adventure
In 2021, I did my first 100-kilometer trail run—and in doing so, I saw just how incredibly helpful Peter was throughout the day and in the day after. I saw...
Gratitude Journals Really Do Work—Especially For Athletes
We’ve written about the power of gratitude many times in the past. Pretty much every sports psychologist brings this concept up, and we know that the research bears it out....
Finding Your Athletic Support Crew
I often find myself thinking about a chapter from our book Becoming A Consummate Athlete, titled “The Importance Of Finding Your Support Crew.” If you’re a pro racer, your support...
Is Aspirational Clutter Slowing Down Your Training?
Whether we’re talking about physical or mental aspirational clutter, you might be making your training harder—or at least, much more crowded—if you’re not occasionally clearing out the gear or the...
When You’re Struggling to Hang on to Your Athletic Identity
If you listened to our podcast this week, you may have caught my couple of allusions to some big projects that I have in the works. More on that very...
How Athletes Can Motivate With Healthy Self-Talk
What do you say to yourself when you run? For most of us, we aren’t the nicest when the going gets tough. I realized after we talked to Rebecca Rusch...
How to Handle Plummeting Motivation to Train
This is a repost from 2021—this is a topic that often comes up as we move from February into March and it feels like resolution excitement is behind us but...
The 30-Second Before Bed Habit That Makes Tomorrow Healthier
*This is a repost from February of 2020—three years later, I find myself in the same situation as I did then, trying to figure out how to keep a smooth...
Want to Simplify Your Life? I Don’t Recommend #VanLife
If you’re thinking about simplifying your life and find yourself imagining leaving it all (well, most of it) (well, the stuff you definitely don’t need) (OK, maybe some of that...
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