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Hey athletes,

The past two weeks I’ve spent my time in Nova Scotia, mostly free of responsibilities around work. I’ve been able to prioritize the things that bring me the most joy – like training, writing, coaching, spending time with my girlfriend, eating food and drinking tea!!

This is really rare.

I mean, at least, rare to have this much time to just think about training and put together such big, uninterrupted volume.

The last time I had this luxury, I had my best race ever – a 🥈 at the Ultra-Trail Harricana 42K Classique. I spent two weeks prioritizing the same things, focusing on the race, and I ended up having both an amazing experience, and an amazing race.

Now again, this is so rare.

Maybe we’ll have a vacation. But an extended vacation and a race in one go? Really rare!

And that’s okay! While it can help, you don’t NEED to take two weeks off from your life to have the race of your life.

If you check all the right boxes ✅, you can have a super successful training cycle and race even within a busy lifestyle!

Take it from me, who works with athletes, writes articles, and has an 8.5 hour work schedule, while still training upwards of 110K weeks!

You can do this too ✅.

You just need to focus on priorities.

This is something I’ve written a lot about, especially last year when I got really into writing self-development and productivity pieces like…

-> Establishing your priorities in life

-> How to identify where you want to go in life

As I mention in articles like the two above, everyone is busy!

We are all busy.

Chances are, you’re busy too.

And most of the time – it’s not as though you don’t have time. It’s not like you don’t have time for that run, time for that meal, or time for that extra bit of sleep.

Most of the time – you’ve chosen to prioritize something else.

And I know all of you… you all prioritize training within your busy lifestyle.

But what you really have to prioritize even more than training within your busy lifestyle is recovery.

Because as we know, you don’t get better from training. You get better from how your body recovers from training. Training is nothing without proper recovery.