A few weeks ago, Marty Hehir won The Marathon Project in Chandler, Arizona, running 2:08:59 to beat a competitive men's field. In that...

"It's a very basic book, but there's nothing in there that is … extraneous. If you're a sprint coach, and you're just starting out, this...

The other day, I was lacing up my shoes to go for a run when I heard it. "It" started as a soft drizzle. Within seconds, it became a...

Consider, for a minute, the work of a teacher. In an overly simplified sense, it's a dance of preparation and examination. The teacher...

As coaches, we've all been there. The week of the big race comes, and all of the sudden, an athlete has pain in their Achilles. Someone...

On Wednesday night, San Antonio Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich was ejected in the second quarter of their game against the Los Angeles...

Today is the day. It's the day when a large swath of the population decides to embark on a New Year's Resolution. The gyms are full...

Earlier this month, Spotify offered users a look at their listener data for the year. At that point, I had spent over 36,000 minutes...

By now, you've probably read all of the "Best Books of 2020" lists you can handle. That's okay. I promise mine will be different in at...

In a year that felt unlike any other in history, a philosophy that has persisted for over two millennia provided a playbook. Yes, I'm...

A small, 9x14 cm Clairefontaine notebook is the key to my productivity. Serving as a pocket-sized journal, I use it to create checklists,...

Say you are a shoe company, and you decide to sponsor a professional running team. You have money to pay 12 full-time salaries. Most...

Last week, author James Clear was a guest on the Finding Mastery podcast with Michael Gervais. Clear's book, Atomic Habits, has spent 55...

There's a concept in the project management world called Parkinson's Law. Essentially, it means that the more time you have, the longer...

"Nick didn't care how fast he ran. He just had to win." While being interviewed by Ryan Fenton and Alex Lohr on their Beneath the...

There's a counterargument to everything I've written. And in a particular context, that perspective could be the better angle. There are...

This fall, a "typical" training week for our men's cross country team was anything but. In times not constrained by a pandemic, we would...

Mudita. It is a word from the Sanskrit and Pali languages, meaning "sympathetic or vicarious joy, or the pleasure that comes from...

Last summer (2019), England Rugby Head Coach Eddie Jones was one of the presenters at Vern Gambetta's GAIN conference in Houston on the...

In 2009, executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith published one of my favorite leadership articles in the Harvard Business Review....