tricia972

I have been on both sides of the finish line, as an athlete and as a coach, I can tell you one thing with complete certainty: endurance athletes are a special breed. We wake up before sunrise to swim laps, spend our weekends logging five-hour rides, and casually drop "I have a long run tomorrow" into dinner conversations like it is completely normal. But within this glorious tribe, there are some very distinct personalities. Over the years, Tricia and I have coached all of them. Don't worry....

High performers are conditioned to believe that more effort automatically produces more results. In the boardroom, that mindset often works. Longer hours, tighter deadlines, relentless execution. Output goes up. Endurance sport plays by a different set of rules. On the race course, applying a pure grind mentality without a strategy is one of the fastest ways to plateau—or quietly slide backward. More training stress without intelligent structure doesn’t compound. It accumulates. After...