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Quitting: The Quitters Translation Guide

As a military veteran and endurance athlete, I have heard a lot of reasons to quit over my lifetime. After a while they all become background noise and are often just variations of ones I have he...

Quitting: Why Are Members of Special Operation Forces Good at Not Quitting?

Growing up I often look at Special Operations Forces (SOF) as larger than life characters capable of doing the impossible.  The never quit despite the harshest of conditions.  The question I had gr...

Quitting: The Loudest are often the Biggest Quitters

 There is something I have realized over the course of my endurance career and time spent in the military, it is those that are the most vocal about not quitting are often some of the earliest to l...

On Identity: Loving The Part Of You That Isn't Dutch From Predator

I never meant to be a lifer. My father was a Marine Captain. He joined, served, and moved on. My Grandfather was a Marine PFC machine gunner in G/2/29. He took three bullets at Sugar Loaf Hill on O...

The Importance of a Good Aerobic System: Achieving the Anaerobic Threshold

In the last blog I wrote, The Importance of A Good Aerobic System: Keeping You & Your Teammates Alive Longer, we talked a lot about how the aerobic system is vital for the SOFlete Athlete, as ...