Welcome to the Grit Coaching Newsletter. One carefully crafted once-a-month dose of insight, inspiration and learning. April’s edition brings big news, our brand new Grit Coaching website is live! As well as a collection of top-tier content from around the web that's well worth your time.

New Website 🎉

I’m excited to share that Grit Coaching has a brand-new website! This long-overdue update has been a great opportunity reflect on and refine my coaching approach and ensure my work and values are clearly reflected.

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A few new features...

Three Coaching Levels 📈

Aspire, Advanced, and Pinnacle. Both Advanced and Pinnacle now have limited spots to ensure personalised attention.

I currently have 1x Pinnacle and 2x Advanced Coaching slots free. Click below to enquire.

Easy Catch-Up Bookings 📆

Athletes can now schedule check-ins directly through the website using Calendly, making it smoother to find a time that works for a coach meet up, bike fit or coach consult.

Domain Name Has Changed 💻

New Domain name and Email: www.gritcoaching.co.nz as well as my email to logan@gritcoaching.co.nz (old one still works for now)

New Members Area 😎

I have been using Obsidian for a while now as my personal note taking software. I have hundreds of notes and reflections from research and experience I will slowly process and publish in the members area. All Grit Coaching Athletes will have their unique password loaded into a note in Training Peaks. This month we have highlighted a race day planning resources to help dial in your race day routine, to make sure you have a bespoke routine that works for you!

Content Worth Consuming

Blog Post - Interpreting Group-Level Data for Individual-Level Application​

Jem Arnold, is a well known and respected exercise science researcher, who, recently shared a great blog post highlighting that we need to be cautious when using group-level data to predict individual outcomes. Unfortunately, companies like Whoop, Garmin, and others often lean on "science" to create overly simplistic metrics that play on our need for simplicity and certainty. When in reality, these measures may not be as personalized or accurate as they seem.

Video - The Learner Lab: Learning Faster​

This is a great video on the power of setting intentions and reflection to improve the speed of learning. It's important to remember that it's not always that easy to execute a good training session, setting the intention and reflect on how we did allows us to extract more from each training session. Most people will do this for a race, but less so for everyday training sessions.
Training Peaks comments and notes are a great place to start recording these if you don't already.

A good prompt: What am I trying to achieve with this session? I find athletes can get bogged down in overly complicated thinking. For example if you are doing a TT effort on the flat: What you are trying to achieve this session might be, "work on my position discipline, focus on my position more towards the end of each effort as I become more tired" That's adding a little something extra to the session and taking ownership of your development.

Book - Inner Game of Tennis

You don't need to be into tennis to read this book. It is a book about learning, skill development and performing under pressure through the lens of tennis. The author argues that overthinking and self-judgment hinder performance and he introduces techniques like non-judgmental self-awareness, relaxed concentration and letting go of control to enhance learning and execution. It's helpful whether you are a coach or athlete.

Podcast - Interview with Anna Kiesenhofer​

Anna Kiesenhofer - Olympic C... Feb 3 · That Triathlon Show 86:49   ​

Anna Kiesenhofer was the winner of the women's road race in the Tokyo olympics and she did so as a non-professional athlete working full time as a mathematician.

Research Paper - The race within a race: Together on the marathon starting line but miles apart in the experience

This paper by Louise Burke, uses the marathon as an example to highlight the differences between elite and recreational runners and how science and the commercial world are conflating the needs of the two groups without realising several issues.

YouTube: In One Day: Auckland to Wellington​

Youtube: The Great Southern Country​

Two great documentaries following Lachlan Mortons exploits setting records both Auckland to Wellington and circumnavigating the Australian coast. Well worth a watch!!

Cycling Coverage: Watch Cycling Live

Haven't had a chance to use this yet, but it seems like a good option to watch cycling. Sky coverage is terrible and since GCN+ got sold there hasn't been a good way to watch professional cycling. Be aware certain content is geo restricted and you will need a VPN

If you got this far congrats! That's a wrap!

Cheers Team!