Tri More Yoga

Finding the balance between doing too much and too little can be tough and I am definitely one of those people who pushes the boundaries of doing too much. This is applicable in the context of training and life in general. Now this is technically a "New Years" post, so I'll explore this topic both reflecting on 2017 and goal setting for 2018, but mostly 2018. A quick look back at 2017 and the whirlwind that it was... I have always played around with the limit of what I can take on, teetering on the edge of having absolutely no free time and going insane. I have a tendency to get bored with the same old routine and then try to take on new things so I continue feeling challenged. This YouTube video pretty much sums up what I am talking about by Casey Neistat (click here ). 2017 was no different and there were times where I teetered a little too far into the domain of taking on too much and too little. I spent some time trying to get rid of part of my personality, but I...

The idea of writing a blog and publishing race reports is not new. Endurance athletes have done it for as long as I can remember. At first, I didn’t read them mostly because I told myself I didn’t have the time, but this season I have started to read some of the posts my training buddies made and I have grown to enjoy and appreciate blogging. While I usually hear a lot of what is written in person, it is often not until the blog is written that these things are said outloud. Writing a race report, whether or not it be in blog form, gives athletes a chance to reflect and write about everything and anything that happened during a race. By having a long record of these reports, athletes can start to see trends in things that did and did not work while. This is especially important in endurance racing where we don’t get many opportunities to race and try new things, especially when so many things can go wrong while exerting yourself to your max for 4+ hours. This is a fairly simple conce...