By Elizabeth Waterstraat | Multisport Mastery After nearly 20 years of coaching endurance athletes, I finally found the words for something I’ve believed all along. The biggest lessons haven’t come…
Modern athletes are surrounded by data. Watches track heart rate variability, power meters quantify every watt, GPS devices monitor pace, and recovery apps claim to predict readiness before the body…
Race morning. The nerves are screaming, the unknowns are looming, and no matter how well you've trained, there's always a question lurking in the back of your mind: Am I…
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” This observation from Paul Valéry has always…
One of the most rewarding parts of coaching is guiding an athlete to a true breakthrough. Not a lucky day. Not a one-off performance. A measurable, repeatable step forward. But…
Periods of feeling “stuck” are part of sport. Performance plateaus, inconsistent results, or a run of substandard sessions can lead to excessive internal analysis that is not particularly useful. Thinking…
Recently, I finished Morgan Housel’s new book, The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life. Housel describes the idea of quiet compounding: progress that unfolds slowly, invisibly,…
One of the most persistent misconceptions in endurance sport is that improvement should appear as a smooth, upward trend. For experienced triathletes, this expectation is not only unrealistic but physiologically…
In an end of season reflection, an athlete expressed how they felt they made the shift from completer to competitor – and how it was harder than expected. The discomfort…
Richard Hamming was a mathematician and computer scientist best known for his work at Bell Labs and his unique views on learning and thinking. In 1986, he gave a seminal…