Mihkel Räim 🙋‍♀️

Drop the Ego. Find People Who Know More. The best coaches seek out wisdom from others. Fiercely guarding your "secrets" backfires. Coaching comes from conversation. The more smart thinkers you're talking to, the clearer your thinking will be.

🧵“Beyond the Finish Line” The Epidemiology of Injury and Illness in Professional Cycling: Insights from a Year-Long Prospective Study. mdpi.com/2075-4663/13/1…

Thank you @EscapeCollective for shedding light on the crucial work The Cyclists' Alliance is doing to support riders when teams fail to honour contracts: escapecollective.com/for-womens-con…

Vo2max, High Intensity Interval Training, Norwegian Method, Tabata Sprints, & on & on. There's a lot of fancy sounding advice in the social media fitness world. And a lot of it is misguided. Let's correct. This is my Fitness Influencer Survival Guide: When they say "sprint"...

Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (19th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Cycling Ireland has this morning announced a new High Performance Strategy for 2025-2028 ☘️ Read the full announcement and find the document below 👇 shorturl.pulse.ly/zkgr2qxq5g

Leadership simplified: Hire good people. Give them the tools to succeed. Provide them the security to take calculated risks. Get out of their way. Let go of over-controlling. Trust them to do their job.

Hippos can run and swim faster than humans, which means cycling is your only chance of beating a hippo in a triathlon.

Word of the day is ‘immiseration’: the act of making people progressively more miserable.

If you think a shortcut or hack is going to make the difference in whatever you are pursuing; you are doing it wrong. If you want to be a great marathoner, you have to run a lot... great writer? write a lot... Practice your craft. A lot.

My column on today’s milestone release of the first volume of the report into the Post office scandal. Warning: contains weapons-grade scumbags theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

People are complaining that they don't understand my petition, and that I should dumb it down, so here goes. Your country is being cut up into pieces and sold off to corporations. If you don't sign this petition, you will lose everything. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7294…

Selection information regarding the 2026 Commonwealth Games 👇 shorturl.pulse.ly/er9dgtcfhz

Performance used to mean something. It was about doing the work. Stepping into the arena and finding out what you were made of. Somewhere along the way, “performance” stopped meaning performing. It became a brand. A vibe. A marketing slogan. We lost the plot.

I've coached dozens of world-class athletes. You know what matters most when helping the best of the best? It isn't actually about the gadgets, cutting-edge supplements, special workouts, fancy protocols, or even the final 1%... It's preventing them from doing dumb things.

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We’re training a generation to fear failure. Not because they’re soft or lazy, because everything they do is on display. Every test score, every game, every rejection lives forever online. When life becomes performative, failure feels like a public referendum on your worth.

No one knows your potential. Predicting potential is one of the hardest things to do. Even experts suck at it. What's that mean? If you want to find out your potential, you've got to do the work to give yourself a shot The only way we see where our limits lie is to do the work

Mandelson is an exaggeration, not an exception robinmcalpine.org/mandelson-is-a…