The book

You are still becoming.

I have been writing a book for young athletes for a bit over a year now. Not a training manual. The half underneath it, the one that decides whether the training lands at all.

I coach this for a living and the pattern is the same nearly every time. The athlete who gets somewhere is rarely the most gifted one in the room. It is the one who worked out who they were underneath the sport, and then trained from there instead of towards it.

Two chapters are drafted. Rather than sit on the thinking until a publication date I do not have yet, I am going to send pieces of it out as I go. Some of it will land better with a parent and some with the athlete, and it is written so it can be handed across.

It goes out when there is something worth sending.

Wherever you are. You do not have to be near Norwood for this one.

Bryan Beinke