Coach's Notes
Things I’m thinking about. Coaching, endurance, mental performance, and the occasional detour.
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What I’m telling myself this week
You made the sacrifice and the reinforcement you need isn’t showing up. Jeff on calorie deficits, launching Color Flow, and what to do in the middle zone.
Insider Tips on Training for SEALFIT Kokoro from a Coach
A SEALFIT KOKORO Coach’s Experience First, Kokoro from my athlete’s perspective In 2010, I sought out a new endurance challenge
The most expensive editing I’ve ever done
Four significant commitments that went nowhere visible — a PhD, pilot exams, an unfinished course, and a shelved novel. What happens when you stack your quits and finally see the pattern.
The note she held for three bars
A French Horn player at the Met used one color technique to anchor the most exposed moment in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Here’s the technique — and how to try it yourself.
The dot that owned me.
Steve Jobs said connect the dots looking backwards. I think he left something out.
The thing I wasn’t looking for
Two years of silence, a move to Thailand, and why I’m writing again.