We live in a day and age of data and technology driven training. It is no secret that many of the breakthroughs we’ve seen in athletic performance as of late are the byproduct of advances in the equipment and software that are now widely available to anyone who wants to make a foray into competitive sport. Power meters, high tech running shoes, wind tunnel testing, aerodynamically optimized clothing and helmets, software programs that allow optimal race pace and nutriti...

This blog post will be my first in quite a while. Over the past 10 years, I have gone out of my way to maintain a low (nearly non-existent!) profile to ensure that my coaching load remained at a very manageable 12 or so athletes. Between parenthood, my work as a teacher and everything else that life has thrown into the mix, there is only so much time in the day, and I found that taking on any more than about a dozen athletes only led to the ...