August 26, 2009
Posted by: Mark Allen

Mark's Mid-Season Reset

Mark AllenIf you are like many people, you have probably been training with focus since the first of the year. That is over six months worth of logged swim, bike and run workouts. You may also have that dull feeling building inside that your motivation has lost its razors edge and that "holding on for just a few more weeks" is sounding more like a prison sentence than something you want to set your alarm clock for. If you are feeling 100% of that early season motivation and your body is still rock solid, then go train my friend! But if there is a wavering in the force, read on...
June 29, 2009
Posted by: Mark Allen

Peaking Twice

Mark AllenMost triathletes have a situation where they need to hit a big race peak more than once in a season. This can be from trying to qualify for a championship race, or simply because they have more than one event that importance to them on their calendar. I want to give just a few tips on how you can structure your training to be able to have at least two if not three peak performance in one season.
April 13, 2009
Posted by: Mark Allen

What is Your Destiny?

Mark AllenI'm fifty-one years old. I'm at that point in life where real reflection about things seems to be starting. Most likely more pavement has passed beneath my feet than lies ahead. And with that reality, I find myself with one eye peering back in time taking in the events that have happened in my life and the other transfixed on the unknown ethers called the future. What I'm seeing are a few continuous threads that wrap this entire span of time into one thing that for lack of a better word I would call destiny.


These are the big rivers we flow down that have a starting point where we entered the waters with no real idea of what we would find ahead and no suggestion of when or where we would set shore and walk away. But it was important to set out nonetheless. These are the moments that are our destiny.

February 20, 2009
Posted by: Mark Allen

Have You Ever Been Afraid?

Mark AllenHave you ever been afraid? What happens? You hold back, maybe just for a second, or possibly forever. You choke on the words that needed to be said and instead spit out something that bars you from going down the path that truth would have taken you on. Ever regret it later that you let fear get in the way?


I learned a life lesson about fear in one sentence spoken a number of years ago by an unlikely source. It came from a guy named Walter, who is the brother of a dear friend of mine, Lisa. Walter is a surfer by passion, and on any given day is as good as the world's best.
January 29, 2009
Posted by: Mark Allen

Viewpoint on Change

MarkAllen We all have our ladders to climb that reach for the sky. Many times we make it to the top but sometimes we don't. And even when we do, it can take longer than we hope. But hope we must, as this is the fuel that propels us forward even in moments of doubt. Fulfilling dreams is rarely a predictable process, and certainly there may be a few personality hiccups in our character that make the road bumpier than is really necessary.

We are at the beginning of a New Year, which is always a point of reflection and a time when we muster up new hope and dedicate ourselves to the things that have purpose in life. Most of us strive to change patterns that have held us back from achieving our dreams. But how does change come about? Do we just say "I will change" and voila we are a different person without the old habits? Rarely.
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