What Burdens Are You Placing On Your Future Self
I was reading a fairly cheesy productivity book the other day, and listening to a similarly cheesy podcast, and by happenstance, both brought up the same topic: the burdens that...
How To Get Over Your Fear Of Open-Water Swimming
A topic that I come back to year after year, no matter how many triathlons I do, or how many years of *not* doing triathlon I take, is that I...
Deciding on the Right Attitude for Altitude
This week, we chatted a lot about racing at altitude on the podcast as I (Molly) talked through my race at the Leadville Trail Marathon, and what we took from...
36 Things About Endurance Sport (+ Life) for 36!
I know it’s super cheesy, but I deeply love a good list, so for my 36th birthday, I wanted to share 36 things I’ve learned about endurance sport (and life)...
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...
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