On a recent trip through the Indianapolis airport, I bought a salad for dinner. From a vending machine. Their salad choices sounded awesome, and the one I chose lived up to its description. It was one of, if not the, best airport salads I have ever had. The vending machine carried other healthy snacks as [...]
If you want to eat better and exercise more, where do you begin? It is a discussion or debate I have heard discussed many times. Reasonably, different people have had success starting in a different place and so they may tout what they have found successful. I think that you should start with whatever change [...]
Write down three to five goals that first come to mind. They can be in any area of your life from triathlon to career to relationships. Then think more expansively. What are three to five more goals. Without any barriers, what is coming to mind? Big scary goals you would love to have but maybe [...]
I feel that I keep my sugar intake quite low, and yet I was still really surprised when recently putting together a comparison. The American Heart Association recommends that women do not eat more than 25 grams of added sugars per day, men get 36 grams. I looked at a few different foods to think [...]
I have no idea if this is true, but I recently heard Derek Sivers say that if you ask someone who doesn't like to run why they do not like it, they will explain in detail how complicated the process is. You have to change into exercise clothes. Find socks and shoes. Put them on. [...]
The TEDx talk below is pretty amazing. I have listened to the book Bill Burnett co-authored with Dave Evans titled Designing Your Life. It's a topic that fascinates me personally, but I think any engaging human would find this talk (and possibly the book) interesting. Perhaps not to plan your life and what's coming next [...]
Check out this video - a 3D run through of a triathlon race course. This cannot be that difficult to create, and it is super fun and helpful. I would hope that more courses move to using this technology. I will let you know if I can figure it out for the race I direct...though [...]
I am pretty straight-laced and have viewed 'drugs' as bad, with little exploration even in my younger years. Both of my parents experimented with various drugs, including psychedelics, in the bay area in the 70's. While this was common, in my view they were never well-adjusted and happy people, and despite the many possible reasons [...]
Written rules. Ethics rules. Social rules. Culture. Laws: Employer. City. State, country. So many to keep track. Impossible not to get it wrong sometimes. How do you react when you break them? Where is the line between proper respect of rules with acknowledgment you will go astray occasionally and not living fully because you are [...]
Starting a new training plan brings excitement and possibility. Moving from regular exercise, to building continually, resulting in a near-constant state mixing between push/recovery/exhaustion/repeat - continuing to stay just on the brink of overwork but trying not to cross the line. Over seven months since crossing the finish line of Ironman New Zealand, I am [...]
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