
Class is in Session!
Earlier this year I wrote about the frustration that coaches were feeling at not being able to coach because of the COVID-19 pandemic....

al Ricetto
Photo from I Borghi piu Belli d’Italia This is where I’m heading when this (COVID-19 Pandemic) is all over. It's the Ricetto, a walled...

Driving Art
“…I really do consider fast driving as an art, an essentially twentieth century art, and one demanding as much theoretical study, natural...

Daily Distraction
Coney Island Cyclone Image courtesy of UltimateRollerCoaster.com Coaching without a team or player/student has left many of the coaches...

Persistence
I like working at home, but I do miss seeing colleagues so one thing I've been doing (perhaps annoyingly) is sending my team a daily...

Expanding Walls
My first day at a track event was in the early 2000’s. My car was a new chili red Mini Cooper with a checkered flag decal on its roof....

Hey – it’s just about driving season! (Strategy and Coaching with Ross Bentley)
My friend Ross is a driven person. Thankfully he is okay with a bad pun. You see, Ross Bentley is the preeminent racecar driver coach in...

Nine dots, four lines; A challenge for 2020
Below are nine dots arranged in a set of three rows. Your challenge is to draw four straight lines which connect to each other and go...

Artist Taliah Lempert; The Growth Mindset at Work
I first met Taliah at the bicycle industry trade show at a show booth where her portrait of Greg LeMond’s Tour de France winning bike...

Range versus Depth
I pleaded with my brother to take a literature class. He flat out refused. MIT didn’t (maybe still doesn’t) have requirements resembling...