Middaugh Coaching

Helping athletes scale the mountain and reach their goals using a proven scientific approach and extensive personal experience.

01/01/2024

Winter race calendar coming together…

2024 Old Man Winter Bike Rally & Run The 10th annual Old Man Winter Rally is a must-do Colorado endurance festival with mixed terrain adventures for all levels of riders and runners. 50K or 100K bike courses include Boulder County's best gravel roads and the 100K course adds in canyons and snowy single track. Running courses includ...

12/11/2023

Thanks for the chat Travis Macy!

and I got to team up with another father-son duo, and this week on the pod. This was such a fun, personal, and unique conversation reflecting on Sullivan’s groundbreaking success in triathlon coming out of high school plus reflections on why youth athletes should consider delaying specialization.

Josiah Middaugh is an XTERRA Triathlon World and US Champion who has also won big events in snowshoeing, winter multisport, running, cycling, mountain biking, adventure racing, and more. He also runs .

Sullivan Middaugh, 19, is an athlete with and a student at Arizona State University. He has worked hard and enjoyed success, including finishing fifth pro at the XTERRA World Championship in 2023 and winning the XTERRA USA Championship in 2022 and 2023.

High school senior Porter Middaugh recently finished sixth at Nike Cross Country Nationals in Portland, OR and will join his brother next year at Project Podium.

Tune in to the podcast to hear from The Middaugh’s yourself! This episode is now live on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

11/01/2023

Great to see the research concluding what we have observed and advocated . Make your goals actionable!
1. Process goals have the largest impact on performance
2. Performance goals have a moderate impact
3. Outcome goals are almost negligible

Outcome goals are usually the first goals people make, but they depend on the performance of others and provide little direction other than fleeting motivation. It might be surprising to learn that many champions don’t even set outcome goals. The outcome is a product of the “systematic attainment of short term goals.”