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By Devon Palmer (Posted on November 26, 2013 by palmertri)

NEW HEAD COACH

I am and always will be the CEO of Palmer Tri, LLC but I am excited to announce I’ve hired a new HCO (Head Coaching Officer). The previous HCO was fired at the beginning of August for gross negligence, unforgivable incompetence and a severe scruple deficiency (that is to say, he was unscrupulous). Before and after this individual I myself served as HCO. With all my other duties for the company...

(training, sitting on the couch, eating) I am pretty busy and prefer to have someone else serve as HCO. Plenty of my fellow midwestern pros seem to operate well independently, my teammate David Thompson or Badger Thomas Gerlach for example, but I know I operate better with a coach in my corner.

In 2011 when I looked for a coach I was specifically on the market for an ‘elite’ coach. I wanted someone with experience bringing pros to the top of their game. There are not that many elite coaches out there. Most of the real elite coaches are too busy doing their job to have much of an online presence and unfortunately the internet was my main way of researching. There are some ‘elite’ coaches who have a big online presence but their work with pros is actually just a marketing tool. While I salute their good business practice, they are obviously not really going to be a legitimate option. This is the “Cabbagepatch Coaching Model”. (Any resemblance to actual tri coaching business is fully intended.) Good business, not sure about the coaching itself. You see these types of coaches / smart businessmen ride the fame of their main pro until they are high profile enough to write articles for magazines and develop their own brand name. Pro tip: a key thing to avoid is coaches / businessmen who invent their own weird language for everything. The language of training and racing is established, you don’t need to rewrite the dictionary.

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ED. MTN will post Devon's coach selection tomorrow (Saturday).