Learning to Embrace the Suck
The difference between a good race and a bad race is all about how you manage the (inevitable) pain. Chris McCormack I first came across…
Category: Fitness
Let’s Play a Game: Reason or Excuse
It’s almost impossible to run 100 miles while puking and shitting your pants every 20 yards. What the hell does that have to do with…
David Goggins Challenge to raise awareness for domestic violence during COVID-19
I was honored to have the opportunity to speak to Ryan Jesperson on Friday about the Goggins Challenge I undertook to raise awareness about domestic…
Building Resiliency
One of the most valuable characteristics a person can hold, in my opinion, is resiliency. re·sil·ience /rəˈzilyəns/ noun noun: resiliency the capacity to recover quickly from…
Sometimes you have to be an energy vampire part II
Hopefully, you read Part I of my Summit experience which gives you a little bit of context on how I ended up here. In my…
November Project: Sometimes you have to be an energy vampire Part I
It’s Thursday morning, July 14, 2016. When I say morning, I mean EARLY morning. I mean 3:05am kinda morning. Usually for me this means that…
Redefining Badass
When you think ‘Badass’ what do you think of? If you are like most, you conjure up images of Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pink, George…
Embrace the Suck – Revisited
“The difference between a good race and a bad race is how you manage the (inevitable) pain” Chris ‘Macca’ McCormack on triathlon. Just a little…
2015 Vancouver Marathon
Eighteen weeks of training all comes down to one day. For the last two years I have run the Vancouver half marathon with a variety of…
Episode 19: Heather Cole: Diabetes, Ultra Marathons and Ironman Oh My!
This episode is a little bit different than the usual business interviews I do. This week I have the privilege of interviewing an inspiring young…
ISTAR: Nichole’s Journey
In my last post I gave you a brief summary of my experience at the ISTAR (Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research) event. I alluded…
What was hard becomes easy
So here we are less than two weeks away from the most challenging physical thing I have ever done in my life. In 12 days…
My Half Ironman Experience
So here it is, 32 weeks of training all comes down to one day. On Sunday July 7, 2013 I raced the Great White North…