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Rising above the bad workout Mastering the long view in your training. You have a bad workout. You know the one I’m talking about. That workout where you were expecting to do X but instead got Y. Immediately your brain goes into convulsions of craziness. Because you’re human. This is one of those misalignment moments …
Finding Flow in your running and your 10,000 hours We hear a lot of new-agey talk about getting into flow states these days. A flow state is when you’re ‘in the zone’ when everything just flows effortlessly and perfectly from you without thought or direction. In sports it is when all the shots find the …
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Late training cycle drama One of the things you learn to live late in a hard marathon cycle with is drama. Chances are if you’re going to get hurt or sick it’s going to be in the final third or quarter of your cycle. That’s exactly when it will cause the most drama in your …
Boston Marathon 2018 Weather – Just be smart, don’t freak out If I cared about clicks I would call this post “Potential nightmare scenario at this year’s Boston Marathon!” But, I don’t so I’m going to call it “Just be smart this year at Boston…” As I sit here in my warm home office about …
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Aches, pains and slow twitchiness… Trying to get back into race shape after a summer of mountain biking isn’t as easy as I would like it to be. I’m coming up on 48 years old this fall and I feel a bit like Brett Favre constantly coming out of retirement in search of some former …
