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Injury Recovery: On Totems and Fear Getting out of your own head There is this delicate time of fragility when one is just setting forth on the road of wellness after a period of injury. This is not only a physically delicate time for the athlete, but it is also a mentally fragile time. A …
How to use ‘waves’ in your training Periodicity When training for a particular race there are a number of plans you can choose from. It’s a bit like choosing a diet or a exercise program. Everyone has the guaranteed solution for you that will do the trick. Most of them do something but seldom is …
Around the lake Another Story. I would really like to be able to tell a different story about this race. I would like to tell that other story, the one I had been rehearsing in my head. The story of how I had beaten back a chronic injury, trained well, gotten fit, lost weight and …
How professional athletes deal with career ending injuries What happens to those thousands of athletes who are at the top of their sport and suffer a career-ending injury? What can we learn from it? I was drawn to this topic over the last few weeks by a malevolent pincer movement of two angry forces. The …
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My version of the Ayer Fire Dept. 5K on Thanksgiving Morning 2011
