Author · Keynote speaker · Olympic rower

Nobody wins the first 1,500 metres. They win the last 500.

Jess Tamura brings the discipline of the last five hundred metres into rooms running on fumes — and sends them back to work able to use it.

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The Last 500

What the last five hundred metres teaches you

Everyone remembers the start. Nobody remembers you until the last five hundred metres, when the technique goes and all that’s left is what you trained into your hands.

The boat. The crew. The last five hundred, over and over.

Cover of The Last 500 by Jess Tamura

One session. A finish nobody forgets.

One drill. An exercise the team runs together in the room. Every talk paced to the way your team actually competes.

01

Keynote

Main stage. Built around your team’s own season.

02

Workshop

Half a day. Pre-read, live drills on the floor, a written summary to take back to training.

03

Virtual

From a broadcast studio, two cameras. Recording rights by arrangement.

Portrait of a fellow athlete in training kit, against a dark background
“Technique doesn’t hold on its own. The last five hundred metres holds it for you.”

Field note · Jess Tamura

Free chapter + race notes

Take chapter one with you

Short notes on pacing yourself when the race gets long. No courses, no funnel.

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