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From Olivia: I’ll Have What She’s Having
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Wellbeing Coach, Olivia Syptak Passion has always moved me. Sure, I haven’t always known to call it that, but I have always been drawn to the outward...
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043: So, You Had a “Bad” Race? [Podcast]
“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis “Our best successes often come after our greatest dissapointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher “Reflect, learn, go again.” – Ben Reyna...
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From Olivia: Staying The Emotional Course
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Wellbeing Coach, Olivia Syptak A lot of the stresses in our lives are pretty routine. As athletes who also work, go to school, and live and interact with other...
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From Olivia: Who ARE You? You Really Ought To Know.
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Wellbeing Coach, Olivia Syptak One of the key elements of daily fulfillment (yes, you read that right…fulfillment can be and is realized daily…a topic for...
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Don’t Whine. Don’t Complain. Don’t Make Excuses: Life Lessons From Two Great...
An old cherokee told his grandson, “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, greed, jealousy, resentment, inferiority, lies, and ego. The other is Good. It...
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From Olivia: Getting Over “Those Days.”
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Wellbeing Coach, Olivia Syptak What is it with the scatter brained fidgetiness that seems to take hold on certain days? Those days when despite our inner...
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052: After Your “A” Race: Euphoria, Letdown, or Somewhere In Between? With...
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Wellbeing Coach, Olivia Syptak If you are like so many endurance athletes everywhere who enjoy toeing the line at a race (be it sprint or iron distance...
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053: New Segment: Meet The Team! With Colleen Kelly Alexander and Sean...
In today’s Episode 53, we are launching a brand NEW segment (recommended to us by many listeners) in which we will interview and feature different members of Team Pursuit Athletic Performance....
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From Olivia: The Two Wolves of Ironman Lake Tahoe
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Wellbeing Coach, Olivia Syptak All day yesterday I thought about what the cancellation of Ironman Lake Tahoe so close to the start, might have felt like for...
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Four TIPS For The Aging Endurance Athlete (Hint: Yes, You Can Still Keep...
Coach Al (showing his back-side) at a Pisgah Mountain 50k trail race aid station. Keeping it young! Some of the readers of this blog know I raced this past weekend at the Pisgah Mountain 50k trail race...
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Be Careful WHO You Get Your Running Advice From…
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” – Albert Einstein “Caveat Emptor” – Latin for let the buyer beware Hi Everyone! Coach Al here. Today I’m jumping...
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From Olivia: Do You Know How to Want?
PAP Functional Well-Being coach Olivia Syptak, leading the team on their journey to “re-set” mentally. We had a great Team Pursuit Reset Camp last week! What a great time to refocus and reconnect with...
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From Olivia: What Is Your Vision?
Is Visioning a Part of your 2015 Season Planning? It Should Be! Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Wellbeing Coach, Olivia Syptak I hope everyone here in the US had a great Thanksgiving holiday...
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From Coach Susan Ford: What DON’T You Want To Do?
Coach Susan Ford I’ve noticed a trend in some people who SAY they want to run or bike faster, and say they are willing to do “anything necessary” to get there. In their minds, “anything necessary”...
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From Olivia: How Will You Commit Yourself This Year?
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Well-Being coach, Olivia Syptak As the start of the new year draws ever closer bringing with it the promise of achieving the goals we’ve set and for living...
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Team Pursuit Athletic Performance: It’s Been A Banner Year!
TEAM Pursuit triathletes at the Timberman Half Ironman triathlon! 2014 was a banner year for Team Pursuit Athletic Performance. It isn’t just that we have expanded into a new training space on the top...
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From Coach Susan Ford: End Of Year Statistics
Coach Susan Ford If you have Facebook friends like mine, your newsfeed is filled with end of year stats on number of miles of swimming, biking and running done this year. It’s great! People are active...
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TIPS For The “Roadie” Who Wants To Hit The Trail More (And Not Get Hurt Doing...
Coach Al with elite ultra-runner (and trail runner extraordinaire), Debbie Livingston If you are one of the many runners or triathletes who routinely run on the roads because the trail isn’t...
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From Olivia: Stop. Rebuild. Reclaim.
Pursuit Athletic Performance Functional Well-Being coach, Olivia Syptak It has been quite a long while since I’ve posted here. A few months of significant overscheduling of work, the holidays, more...
View ArticleI Don’t Care How “Talented” You Are…
We know that each of us is born with our own natural talent and physiological gifts. When it comes to the sports we love like swimming, biking, and running, some are more naturally gifted, having...
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