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 […]
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 […]
It’s a thought that seems incomprehensible at the start “I’m about to race a little over 2700 miles.” My longest previous distance raced was a shade over 900 miles and on-road. When this ride is compared with the high remote mountains of the continental divide, it seems like little more than a casual training ride. […]
I’ve got to thinking that we may be missing a trick in the way we develop resilience in employees. It took me 2725 miles for me to have this epiphany, but I think I’m onto something. Here’s how it came about. I was participating in the Tour Divide. This self supported mountain bike race goes […]
Photo: © Fat Lad At The Back I wear Fat Lad At The Back kit. I wear it with pride. Too often, people tell me “You shouldn’t be wearing that kit – you’re not fat enough.” If only I had a pound for everytime that comment is made to me. More often than not I hear […]