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THE INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE BEHIND THE COACHING. 
 

Aviation has spent 50 years building a rigorous science of human failure. Endurance sport has barely started. The cognitive models are the same. The stakes are different. The lessons transfer directly.

This section is where I publish that work - frameworks, literature reviews, and applied models at the intersection of human factors science and endurance sport. Each piece is free to read, download, and reference. The goal is to give the intellectual work away, because it gets better when it's tested in public.

THE PREMISE

Most performance breakdowns in endurance sport aren't physiological. They're cognitive. Athletes who have trained their bodies correctly still make catastrophic decisions in the final third of a race - about effort, nutrition, and pacing - at precisely the moment when decision-making is most impaired.

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Human factors science has documented this failure pattern extensively in aviation, healthcare, and military operations. The same attentional narrowing. The same comprehension errors. The same collapse of prospective reasoning under load. The endurance coaching world has largely ignored this body of knowledge. This work is an attempt to change that.

FRAMEWORKS

MODELS & APPLIED FRAMEWORKS

Each framework translates an established body of human factors research into a practical tool for endurance sport. Published as standalone pages with a free downloadable literature review.

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CRM

FRAMEWORK 03

CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN COACHING

CRM Principles → Coach–Athlete Communication

Applying crew resource management principles - assertiveness, shared mental models, briefing culture - to the coach–athlete relationship in long-course triathlon and endurance sport.

COMMUNICATION

COACHING

CRM

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JC

FRAMEWORK 04

JUST CULTURE IN SPORT

High-Reliability Organisations → Athletic Environments

What high-reliability organisations can teach athletic teams about surfacing errors, building psychological safety, and creating environments where mistakes drive learning rather than blame.

JUST CULTURE

SAFETY SCIENCE

TEAM SPORT

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ABOUT THIS WORK

WHAT THIS IS, AND WHAT IT ISN'T.

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PEER REVIEWED AND PUBLISHED
 

Every paper in this library is published in a peer-reviewed journal before it appears here. What you're reading has been through independent academic scrutiny - not just practitioner opinion. Links to the original published versions are included alongside each download.

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FREE TO READ, DOWNLOAD, AND REFERENCE

Once published, every paper is made freely available here in full. No paywall, no email gate. If you use this work in your own research, coaching practice, or writing, cite the journal publication rather than this page - that's the version of record.

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BUILT FROM TWO PROFESSIONAL WORLDS AT ONCE

The ideas here emerge from active practice as an RAF Human Factors facilitator and as a competing endurance athlete. The transfer isn't theoretical - it's tested in the same training sessions, races, and coaching conversations the frameworks are designed for.

WANT TO APPLY THESE FRAMEWORKS IN YOUR COACHING OR RESEARCH?

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