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Into the tempo How to work with effort instead of pace on the trails. I had a few long tempo runs this week. And since I’m training for a trail race I did these tempo runs on the trails. Which brings up some interesting nuances in how to execute these workouts. When I was gunning …
What’s your two-word mission statement? What’s your two-word mantra? A couple weeks ago I had the privilege of seeing a keynote speech by Guy Kawasaki who is a well-known social media gadfly these days but made his mark as part of the original Apple team. I follow Guy on social media because he, or his …
Hard Efforts The benefits of going hard I noticed something this week in my training as I mixed in some hard efforts. The relatively small amount of hard effort, in terms of time, has an outsized impact. I’m going to walk you through what I mean by hard effort and talk about the outsized impact. …
Lonely Cows The Gibbet Hill Relay Race It was a last-minute thing. It is a cross-country type race on a cow farm in Groton where I grew up. But, not any random cow farm. I have many personal connections to this cow farm. If you sit or stand on the back side of the Lawrence …
Base building in anticipation of a hard training cycle. This is the last part in a multi-part series on how to get ready for a harder training cycle. Previous articles have looked at developing good form, balance and flexibility, and core strength. This week we’ll look at base building. Why do you care? First of …
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