Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share Here is a quick 5 step guide to goal setting for your athletes. I am using the acronyms S-M-A-R-T: Specific. Drill down to the specific by asking the W-5: who, what, where, when, & why. (Sidenote: How many Canadians remember the TV show “W5”?) i.e. Who do you need to make your goals happen? [...]
Share Below is the audio and video from my radio appearance on ESPN (The Ticket) 1280AM yesterday. Many thanks to Ryan Foran of LivingtheRun.com for having me on the show Wednesday. The co-host is decathlete Paul Terek, a 2004 Olympian and on the USA World Championship team in ’03, ’05, ’07. Maybe I should title [...]
Share This is Part 2 of my Lake Tahoe Marathon experience. Click here for Part 1. Dick Beardsley was a guest speaker at the 2011 Lake Tahoe Marathon He is famous for the race he didn’t win. If you don’t know who Dick Beardsley is, read Duel in the Sun by John Brant. True, he [...]
Share . In the USA: Gold Rush by Michael Johnson In the UK: Gold Rush by Michael Johnson If you like Michael Johnson’s first book, Slaying the Dragon: How to Turn Your Small Steps to Great Feats, you’ll probably enjoy this book. Johnson has assembled his very own Olympic Hall of Fame in assessing the [...]
Share The new book The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World will be released on August 30, 2011. This is his FIRST autobiography co-written with Dave Zirin, and not to be confused with CD Jackson’s Why: The Biography of John Carlos With C. D. Jackson, Jr. When you think of the [...]
Share If you’ve followed this Blog for a while, you’ll notice a subliminal message behind the articles. Since I turned 48 years old today, I’m probably old enough to be your father for half my readers (based on the Internet stats and demographics) Behind all the training and nutrition tips, and all the post race [...]
Share Remember the story last month on Roger Black and how he chose athletics over academics? By failing one course changed the path to his destiny? Black trained at Surrey university’s campus gym before competing in the Olympics, and thus it is great to hear he has been given an honorary degree from the University [...]
Share This coming weekend is Championship weekend with the Trials for many countries including Jamaica, Canada and the United Sates. If you need extra motivation, read on. Some people like hard rock music before a race to get pumped up for the big event. Some people like a calm surrounding so they can just focus. [...]
Share Have you ever failed a course in your life? In life, there is no such thing as co-incidence. Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes, that failure is your destiny. I always take a bad experience or failure and turn it around to something positive. (Read about my disaster at the 1991 Provincials) Take a [...]
Share The key to success, execution and leadership is composure. In Track, the “worst” moment is the 5 minutes leading up to the gun. Once the gun goes off, the rest is all automatic. Remember that stupid TV commercial for the antiperspirant deodorant? One of the rules of success was “never let them see you [...]
Share Here is another article for my “Feel Good", good sportsmanship, and bad sportsmanship collection. The entire series can be found here under the sportsmanship tag. Maybe I should rename the title of this post to: 77 year old Bill Nieder Restrains Terrorist on Airplane? You never know… Bill Nieder won the Shot Put silver [...]
Share When I was attending McGill University as an Undergrad, I used to record all my lectures with a tape recorder. (Hey, this was 1982!) I used a Radio Shack (now called The Source) device to slow down up to 0.5X speed to transcribe the lectures word-for-word for my Note taking club. There were 12 [...]
Share From Ato Bolden’s Twitter account, he tweeted 10 things retired track athletes know that active athletes might not. This isn’t meant to be a Brian Tracy checklist (here’s another), but it’s a good read, and I have to admit, I agree with everything said here. Back in May 2008, I remember Gary Reed and [...]
Share This blog post is about Toronto’s bid to host the 2015 Pan Am Games. Read on… People think Track and Field is all about winning Gold medals. It’s not. People think Track and Field is all about setting goals and personal bests. Sort of. People think Track and Field is all about building character [...]
Share This Blog has a lot of coaching success articles, but not one article on how to do learn and apply mental imagery & visualization techniques. So it is with great pleasure to have this article written by Elisavet Velentza, Department of Physical Education & Sport Science, at the University of Thessaly, Greece. Table of [...]
Share In my never ending series on good health and peak performance, here is a quick summary of tips to long life, healthy living, and overall well being. In no particular order… Genetics Having parents and grandparents into their 80’s and 90’s help! Sleep I really should listen to my own advice! There’s enough research [...]
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Secret to your PR is only 6 inches: the Gap between your Ears
Share I was going to leave the second half of the title off, and simply call it, “The Secret to your PR is only 6 inches”. But that would cause a lot of curious people, especially boys and men, to click on the link expecting adult content or some LaShawn Merritt joke. And heaven forbid, [...]