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Hitting the training again There is something pure about marathon training. It’s a seasonal thing for me. Like those people who embark on New Years resolutions every January 1st. I drop into training, in my case for the Boston Marathon. It’s a bit of a clean slate feeling. A raw feeling. A time of new …
The Kettletown 50k Up, down, and round-around…. I was struggling to keep moving up a near vertical slope studded with rocks. My heart hammering. My legs complaining. My breathing ragged. I’d already fallen down 3 times my Hokas catching on the rocks. The vertical was way worse than I expected. On a scale of 1-10 …
Easing into Speed Work Making the un-approachable approachable When you first start speedwork at the track it is going to feel very foreign to you. If you’ve never done it before your legs and body won’t know what to do. You have to ease into it and not lose hope. Like everything else it takes …
