After 17+ years in the sport, I think its time I found a coach. I need some help cutting through the slogans and gee-whiz website stuff, though. I'm NOT looking for recommendations for specific services. I want to know what to look for and, more importantly, what to LOOK OUT FOR! What issues are there with online coaching? How much time should I look to actually contact the coach? Once a week? Once a month? Email? Phone? Will I find that bigger services are better because they have more resources to draw on? Or will I get more from a smaller service that can give more personal attention? (I found college at a small institution with small 10-15 person class sizes MUCH preferable to a major university where 101 classes might have 400-1000 students in them. Just wondering if the effect is the same here, or reversed). I've searched the web and read most of the major bizs' sites and philosophies. I'm most familiar with names like Friel, Burke, Evans, Browning/Sleamaker, and Carmichael and have read all those authors' literature. I'd be most comfortable with services referencing those concepts.
Help? I've got my best opportunity yet to have a full racing season and I want to make the best of it. I want to do another IM. I haven't done one since '97, but want to really blast the course.
Help? I've got my best opportunity yet to have a full racing season and I want to make the best of it. I want to do another IM. I haven't done one since '97, but want to really blast the course.