June

The Gift of Wild Places

Giddy. Sitting in the parking lot of the Merced Amtrak Station waiting for my friend Greg’s train to arrive from San Francisco, it felt like Christmas morning. Glee. As if it were my first time. In anticipation of this trip I watched, yet another, documentary of Yosemite. The first love of my youth. My second home. I’ve gravitated toward its iconic majesty again and again since our introduction as a young girl. At first glance I thought the attraction was just on the surface; the pull of natural beauty, the smell of fresh alpine air or the incessant sound of rippling water. But as the years rolled on and I played, then hiked, then ran over granite slab after granite [...]

Category: Adventure/Reflection

April

My Vegan Experiment

Note: As posted at athleta.com… Calling All Vegan or Vegan-Curious! If you are vegan, I’d love to hear from you. Tell me why a plant based diet works for you. If you are vegan-curious, or over 50, like me, I think you’ll be interested in my vegan experiment. Before I share what I’m up to nutritionally I’ll give you some background on my starting place, experience as an omnivore and why I’m currently checking out a vegan way of eating. As a lifetime athlete and coach seeking to feel some big energy as much as possible in my waking hours (and support others in this as well), I’ve done a lot of research on nutrition; nutrition for life, and nutrition [...]

Category: Nutrition Training/Racing

April

The Big Scary Test

REMINDER!: This year I am blogging on Athleta.com website and will be sharing the same blogs I offer Athleta to this blog site. Enjoy! – Terri In my last post, Part 2, we were left working with word imagery while prepping to head to Kona for the big scary test at the Ironman World Championship. Check list en route to Kona: Word cues and affirmations solidly in place? Check. Fit as I can be given minimal land running? Check. Stifling heat and unrelenting winds on the Kona Coast? Check. Huge unknown hanging over my head as to how this race will play out!? Check! Even though I was completely unsure how my injured leg would play out on race day, as [...]

Category: Racing/Reflection

March

We Are What We Think: Part 2

Note: Post from Athleta Chi. In my last post, I touched on the ‘whys’ and ‘whats’ of mental training as we started thinking about what our internal brain feed looks like when we train. In this post, I’ll offer you a few tools to develop your own mental training process—wrapped into a real life story. I’ve had quite a few poignant experiences highlighting the challenges and successes of how this work has moved in my life—stories that bring us through jungles, deserts, and on mountains—some of which I’ll share in future posts. But my initiation to the significant power of mental training goes way back in time to my life in triathlon and racing the Ironman distance. So in Part 2 [...]

Category: Sport Psychology

February

We are What We Think: Part 1

POSTED FROM THE ATHLETA CHI BLOG: A ‘Why’ and ‘What’ of Mental Training for Sport (and Life!) A month ago I tossed out a question on my Facebook wall: “As an athlete, do you spend focused time working on mental training?” This was a tiny test to a) see if folks had a sense for what mental training is, and b) get a feel for where mental training lies on their priority scale. My ‘test’ was admittedly remedial, but even the tiny sample size did uncover a couple things I have realized from many years as a coach and sport psychology consultant with lots of athletes: That the majority are uninitiated to structured mental training and its powerful benefits, and [...]

Category: Sport Psychology

February

Brain Function and the Bonk

Brain Function and the Bonk (guest post by Terri Schneider on KonaKase.com) Posted: February 21, 2013 on KonaKase.com Have you ever felt sleepy a few hours or more into an event or training? Mentally and physically out of sorts? Lethargic? Or, have you slipped into a really bad mood during an event and subsequently spent some solid time bashing your abilities as an athlete or perhaps why you as a human exist on this planet at all? If you answer yes to any of these, there is a good chance you have been on the edge of or in the throes of bonking. Bonking is general fatigue resulting from muscle glycogen depletion. When your stores are severely threatened, your brain function can [...]

Category: Nutrition Training/Racing

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About Me

endurance athlete..motivational speaker..writer..coach

Through her extensive international experience in ultra running, triathlon, adventure racing and mountaineering Terri Schneider has established herself as one of the most experienced multi-sport endurance athletes in the world. She has competed in 7 Eco-Challenge Expedition Competitions, the Raid Gauloises in Tibet and Nepal, 22 Ironman Triathlons, with three top five finishes at the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon World Championships. In addition to hundreds of other endurance events she’s completed 50, and 100 mile running races and 7 day endurance runs in the Sahara desert, Gobi Desert and Costa Rica.