Very few of us are going to be spending winter in the South Pacific or even South Florida where the only frozen water is ice in the drinks, yet if your 2012 race venues include a beach and waves now is the time to work on the skills that will get you through the water [...]
Whether your miles are in the ocean, on the roads or along the trail, anything that adds stress to your body is going to affect your performance, and as endurance athletes training and competing along the Mid-Atlantic Coast you can count on the sun being a major stressor.
Everest is a mountain, the English Channel is a swim, and Ironman is an event. Places and pursuits come alive with potential from the passion behind the human endeavor each of us applies to them.
Hillary and Norgay did not create a legacy when they stood on the summit of Everest. They achieved a legacy of greatness from how they climbed and what they did after they stood there.
You don’t have to be the first, go the longest or run the fastest to make a difference. JUST SHOW UP! I promise you, people will notice, and you will change lives.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
Here’s to a balanced life at the extremes in 2011.
Here’s to a balanced life at the extremes in 2011.
In her own words…”What if you felt like the only activity you’d ever loved was the one thing you never wanted to do again.”
In her own words…”What if you felt like the only activity you’d ever loved was the one thing you never wanted to do again.”
I have been competing in endurance events of one sort or another for three decades, yet this is the first time I find myself returning to an event that previously presented me with everything I fear the most in the water – disappointing others and jellyfish. Last year I swam just over 10 miles of [...]
Conservation doesn’t have to take you out of your daily routine or cost you more. The secret is mindfulness!
