Long course triathlon typically refers to half or full ironman triathlon races. These races involve a swim, a cycle leg and then a run, they could take between 4 and 16 hours depending on the event and the person. In long course triathlon, there are a couple of traps that catch most people, at some...
It’s easy to downplay the things that are happening right in front of our nose: climate change, the beginning of the financial crises, a rift forming in a relationship or friendship is starting to go sideways. It is equally easy to downplay the potential impact that we can have as an individual in these situations....
In our physical body, we can train or “work out” for a few different desired results. It might be fitness, strength, mobility, coordination or more. Some of these areas though are lower on the immediate “stimulus” side and higher on the emotional labour side. This means that they can feel slow, frustrating, and require patience...
Freedivers often use some specific “training” tables to train their breath holding abilities. These are set breath hold times with specific rest intervals that increase CO2 tolerance among other things. On the other side of the coin, free diving and spearfishing themselves both will increase breath hold abilities. There is value in the incidental gains...
What would you like to do? How would you like your relationship to look? How would you like your life to be? If you don’t have the target in your sights, it is unlikely you are going to hit it when you pull the trigger. For some people (this seems to be a minority), the...
If you are stranded on a desert island with a small community of people, there is no place for a stop-watch. In these pro-survival situations, the non-compete clause comes out. We don’t need to “race” in our work or our “fitness” with a clock. There’s no upside to additional strain, it is better to connect...
If you drive over a speed bump too quickly, it will destroy your car. Or, at a minimum you’ll spill your cup of coffee. When we face a difficulty in our work, our relationships, our even our training (say an injury), we are at the speed bump. In conversation, this looks like a quick justification,...
In 2009, I was hanging out with a lot of pro triathletes. I was lucky to learn a lot about the sport in this time. Over the years, I “adapted” to a high volume of load, or stimulus while trying to “hang on” to these people in training sessions. One of the hardest and most...
