It has been my experience that as an endurance athlete you either love or hate the mountains. Typically, that is determined by where you...

I was anxious at the starting gate of the Piney Woods Ultra. I was about to begin the longest run I’d ever attempted. Though I felt...

For many athletes, one of the hardest things is not completing scheduled hard workouts, but rather working in adequate recovery time into...

Mental and emotional fitness, in my opinion is greatest attribute that an endurance athlete, or any other for that matter, can develop....

Setting goals are important for progression, achievement and growth in life. This could be anything from an athletic endeavors to life...

Today all too often athletes overexert themselves during their training and life in general. Rather, than taking into account life’s...

With all the advances in technology over the past few years, chances are most runners carry with them some type of watch or device with...

When setting goals for training many athletes will take a random approach rather than a realistic fact based approach. This might be...

Looking back over time there have been certain traits and skill sets that come to the forefront that I have noticed both personally, in...

After a long week preparing for a live fire exercise, we finally make it to the desert-like land where the action is about to take place....

Over the years while training with many different types of athletes, I have seen many different types of programming. While each has a...

When it comes to hydration, for the most part there seems to be two distinct camps, those that prefer bottles and those that prefer...

The great philosopher Mike Tyson once quoted “Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth” and like Mike I had been punched...