If you've raced more than a handful of triathlons, you may have had the moment: an official on a motorcycle rides up alongside you, calls out a number, and your stomach drops. Maybe it was a drafting call. Maybe you got dinged for blocking and didn't even realize you were doing it. Either way, the feeling is the same — a mix of confusion, embarrassment, and "wait, what did I actually do wrong?" Here's the reframe we want every athlete we coach to internalize: a penalty is not a judgment on...

There was a time — not that long ago, honestly — when a coach's job was pretty simple to describe. You showed up, they handed you a plan, you did the workouts, you asked questions when something hurt or felt off. The coach had the knowledge. You had the legs. That was the deal. That world is mostly gone. Today's endurance athlete has more information at their fingertips than a pro triathlete had access to fifteen years ago. Power meters, HRV trackers, sleep scores, VO2 max estimates,...

Coach Megan // Athlete Spotlight Every so often an athlete relationship reaches a point where you have to stop and just look back at the whole arc of it — not the next workout, not the next race, but the whole three years laid out end to end. This is one of those posts. Big goals are even sweeter after setbacks I actually knew Aaron before he was ever my athlete. Long before triathlon ever entered the picture, he was an athlete who came to a regular open water swim I coached in Berkeley, CA....