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Distance Swimming in Kaş

Distance Swimming in Kaş

by | 29 Sep, 2018

As I write this I am sitting on our ‘command boat’ in the sea next to the peninsula in Kaş, Turkey. 30 minutes ago our swimmers begin the first strokes of their challenge swim on this final training day of our open water distance camp. The weather is...
How To Eat More Vegetables – Part 2

How To Eat More Vegetables – Part 2

by | 25 Aug, 2018

Continued from Part 1… Why Bother Emphasizing Vegetables So Much? In this post I am not urging you to become a vegan or a vegetarian. I am simply advocating that you eat A LOT MORE vegetables than you are. If you are anywhere close to average, you are not coming...
How To Eat More Vegetables – Part 1

How To Eat More Vegetables – Part 1

by | 19 Aug, 2018

Need a reason to eat more vegetables?  How about improving recovery after hard athletic efforts?  You may look up these Foods to Improve Athletic Performance & Recovery. on NutritionFacts.org. I’ve been running a lot longer distances this season. With two or...
Spend One Kind Of Energy For Another

Spend One Kind Of Energy For Another

by | 15 Jul, 2018

Do you know what its like to spend energy of one kind in order to gain energy of another kind?  That’s what it usually feels like for me when I go swim. It doesn’t have to be ‘easy’ swimming either. Most often I train quite strenuously,...
Engaging Practices Need Uncertainty

Engaging Practices Need Uncertainty

by | 19 May, 2018

In the Positive Psychology realm, ‘engagement’ (Seligman) is another term for ‘flow state’ (Csikszentmihaly) which I’ve written quite a lot about in a previous series of posts. An aspect of this engagement or flow is being absorbed in a...
Checklist For Staying Ahead Of Depression

Checklist For Staying Ahead Of Depression

by | 5 May, 2018

I realize there are many forms of depression, and each may have a mixture of roots in biology, psychology and sociology. One may not easily parse out the roots, but if we do certain things to care for our body and mind and connection to others, then we stand a much...
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