Are you too easy or too hard on yourself? Are you loving or hateful? How do those around you influence these conversations?

In this interview with Mark Dugdale, we discuss the mental side of training and competing, along with the various challenges that we meet when life, training, family, work, and all of the other areas of our lives intersect.

The self that we present to those around us is only the part of us that we’re comfortable letting out.

It’s in that moment of awareness—of being able to differentiate between what’s important and what isn’t—that separates those who succeed from those who don’t.