Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 12 FEB 2025 Gordo Byrn on Building Sustainable, Lifelong Endurance It doesn't have to feel like this Have you ever experienced heading out for a ride or run that you used to be able to complete with ease, only to discover that…something is wrong? Your heartbeat feels too high,...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 5 FEB 2026 Camp Coach David Tilbury-Davis Named in Triathlete's "12 Coaches You Need to Know." David doing what he's done for 31 years: closely monitoring his athletes If you don't know David Tilbury-Davis, you should, is the subtext of the recent Triathlete article about 12...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 29 JAN 2026 For well over the first half of my professional career, I was labeled an “emotional athlete.” For a certain subset of the human race, this shorthanded euphemism comes in several other forms along a spectrum from the annoying “sensitive,” to the dismissive “hysterical,”...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 22 JAN 2026 Feel Like This in the Pool? Do you feel like you swim, like, a lot, but you rarely see any kind of improvement in the pool or in your open-water swim times? You are NOT alone. If you came to swimming as what I call an "adult-onset swimmer" it can be very hard to...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 15 JAN 2026 "The difference between the ones that are truly, truly successful and the ones who are almost successful is...the successful ones take all of the imposter syndrome and anxieties that they have, and they combine that with the self-awareness and introspection that they...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 8 JAN 2026 My Values/Process Coat of Arms for 2026 and Beyond It's that time of year when everyone is talking about goals: how to set them, how to achieve them, and by this point you can probably rattle off the S.M.A.R.T. acronym by rote memory (except can someone clear up whether...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 5 JAN 2026 Happy New Year, Campers! And just like any new season of camp, it's time to get your uniform. You don't need to be a Campfire athlete to rock our kits. In fact, just by wearing one you're part of the community. If we see you out on course we'll shout for you, even if we...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 18 DEC 2025 Dear Reader, Short one today, because it's really important and I don't want you to miss it. Cody Beals has been one of the most consistent male triathletes of the past decade, racking up four Ironman wins, eight 70.3 wins, and more podium finishes than we have space...
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Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 11 DEC 2025 Learn the signs to avoid costly delays in 2026 In the past decade, endurance athletes began tossing around the term “overtrained” with alarming regularity. “I was overtrained so I had to skip my last race of the year,” or “I’m overtrained so I’m taking a short break...
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