How to Stay Calm on the Cyclocross Starting Line When Everyone Else Looks Faster
They may look stronger than you, but they’re probably thinking the same thing. You’ve trained for weeks or months. You’ve ridden the intervals. You’ve done the running. You’ve practiced dismounts until they finally started to feel natural. Then you roll onto the starting grid for your first cyclocross race of the season. Suddenly none of […]
2 Effective Mental Skill Training Tools That Can Lead to More Joy For Endurance Athletes
One of my coaching athletes has been training for a big challenge, and as the event nears, we’ve been focusing a lot on her mental skill training, especially finding joy in the process of training. What I mean by that is enjoying the training and competition just for the challenge, not as a measure of […]
