Posted January 11, 2016
Hercules was half god. Let’s just be clear about that. The guy could basically do anything that he wanted. As I remember from watching the Disney version, he was so good…he was bored. Been there, done that. He was bored because he knew that he would win until a challenge came along that the outcome …
Posted December 12, 2015
Back in high school I was on the football team. I weighed 145 lbs soaking wet, was slow and couldn’t catch a football very well, but I loved it. My coach often used the phrase “ There is no “I” in team”. He worked hard to build the mentality that every player did their …
Posted November 30, 2015
Nature has a mind of it’s own: The seasons change, rivers flood, meadows sit silent, hurricanes surge and creeks gurgle. Every single adjective in all of humanity can be found in any given moment in the natural flow of life. Nature knows how much of each moment it needs to be balanced and whole. It …
Posted November 8, 2015
I have heard this phrase a few times over my coaching career. It is all the more pleasing and harmonic when it is preceded by a totally opposite phrase. “I really don’t like running.” That is how it often starts out. Some people don’t like to run. They say that it is not an enjoyable activity. It …
Posted October 19, 2015
A few years ago, I was staffing the Phoenix Fitness and Training booth at the Indianapolis Sport and Fitness Expo down at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. It was a nice event with about 100 vendors, but the highlight of the event was the CrossFit competition that commanded center stage. As I watched some of the …
Posted September 24, 2015
This past week, I participated in the ITU Age Group World Championships. It was an amazing experience to race amongst some of the fastest age groupers in the world and also to watch the professionals carve up the very technical Chicago course. The display of their talent and their finely tuned skills was certainly a …
Posted August 27, 2015
It was after my very first triathlon at Eagle Creek that I met Coach Doug. After chatting for a few minutes about his coaching background and the services he offered, I took the Phoenix Fitness flyer and went on my way. I was flying high on accomplishing my goal of simply finishing my first sprint triathlon. Finished! But like most athletes …
Posted August 3, 2015
Tri indy was a great success yesterday! Congrats to: Heather – 1st female Doug – 5th overall Frank – 5th in age group and 17th overall Jane – first in her age group Swati – 4 min improvement from last year Julie – solid race prepping her for Steelhead and her A-race next weekend. Way …
Posted March 1, 2015
What is training stress? If you follow Joe Friel and use TrainingPeaks, you are familiar with the term TSS or Training Stress Score. In the Glossary of Joe’s book The Power Meter Handbook, he defines TSS as the workload of a training session based on intensity and duration. As you build your Training Stress Score …
Posted February 22, 2015
The Season is Heating Up There are some Theoretical Physicists who say time is an illusion and that it doesn’t exist. They say that each moment is an individual place in time and stands separately from all of the other moments that we experience. They say that all the moments are separate, but exist all …
