Waitrose Weekend
Featured in the first issue of 2019 of the Waitrose Weekend Magazine. One correction to note is that The Tour Divide runs between the Mexican border and Banff in Canada and not the Atlantic to the Pacific as described.
Optimising your mental workload capacity
Pay attention! If you are caught whilst driving using a mobile phone, you will be fined and if you live in the UK, points placed on your licence. There is good reason for this. Driving requires visual attention and this is a finite resource. Split it between looking at a phone and driving and the […]
Wellness is not an NHS issue
The magicians call it misdirection. It’s when they get you to focus on one thing whilst they are doing something else. I think of the focus on demands for more National Health Service (NHS) funding is an example of misdirection. The focus should be on exploiting technology for public health. Rather than rely on the […]
Hub and spoke approach to elite performance
Key to athletic success is being well prepared. This means working with a team of experts to get the very best advice applied to the sporting goal. My model for this is the hub and spoke method. The athlete is the hub around whom radiates spokes of expertise. The athlete is at the heart of […]
Poems that inspire me
Thinking If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t, It is almost a certain – you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost; For out in this world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will […]