Author: Chet

Miss and I just enjoyed dinner alone. She made an amazing dinner of turkey, tomato sauce, and pasta. We sat and shared our thoughts. I told her how much I love working with my favorite women’s soccer team and their illustrious leader. It. Makes. No. Cents. It makes perfect sense to me. I told Miss … Continue reading The spirit moves…

Saturday I set a PR (personal record) on the Peloton bike. Everything in my body hurt. I smiled. Sunday, Miss and I had arrived home and the boys and I headed out for a two hour ride in the countryside. Laughs and hard pulls. Monday, more of the same. The legs, neck, back, and quads … Continue reading A day…

This morning, in another early am gem of a practice, I learned that the process of BBTL (Becoming BTL) is all about addition by subtraction. BBTL does not change you into someone you’re not now. BBTL simply sheds the layers of unnecessary bullshit you’ve built up over the years because you’ve been running on the … Continue reading Change what fuels you…

A measley 1.3% of trips in the U.S.A. are taken by bicycle. Compare and contrast with Holland where it's 25%; Germany 14%;  our neighbors up north in Canada are even up over 2%. In America we don't find the time to ride or even walk. We tend to sit. Here's what's happening inside us as … Continue reading Viscystuff…

There is so much we can learn from the ancient Spartans. Their women were insanely strong and ccd. The men were all about we over me. And, as a team, they were peers. Yes, they had a King but he was considered one of them, not one above them. So what’s the point of this … Continue reading Talk like peers…

Never say this to a teammate or a loved one in response to them saying something complimentary to you. Instead, tell them the truth. If you’ve never heard them say what they just said, tell them something like “That’s so kind of you to say a,b,c., I’ve never heard this from you before.” “You never … Continue reading You never told me that…

Practice 53. I picked a fight. Taught a team how to fight to improve performance, not to prove a point. This team is another one of my favorites and they don’t know why or how to kick each other’s ASS. So, they play nice and do not perform near their peak. I could write this … Continue reading Fight…

Today, someone will wrong you. Your natural reaction will be to make things right by somehow getting even. Revenge, remember, is an ancient, unenlightened reaction to make things right. How’s it working for you? Today, wake up to the reality that shit’s going down and it’s most often gonna feel like it ain’t right. Remember … Continue reading Write…