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The Groton Marathon – 2018 It always seems like a great idea in the fall when it is a couple months away. Then as the last Sunday in December approaches I wonder what the hell I have gotten myself into? Despite my reservations and the usual line of calamities, the Groton Marathon went off without …
Endurance Endurance is different from grit or perseverance. Endurance is the ability to keep pushing in the face of discomfort, but also in the face of an unreasonable future. Endurance is the ability to put up with pain and discomfort, but also irresolution with no real offer of succor or success. To endure is to …
Understanding the ‘flywheel’ effect As I jump into my training I think it’s appropriate to consider for a moment the training effect. Basically what the training effect refers to is your body’s reaction to hard training. The caution I want to share is that it is nonlinear. Meaning you don’t just get step-wise stronger after …
A Fun Day at Fundy – June 2013 The Bay of Fundy Marathon. There’s this joke that some of the folks in my running club tell. These are the old timers who have run with me or trained with me. They tell stories of how I’d take a group out on a 3-5 mile fun …
The Big Bounce in your training cycle How to stay with it and make it work for you The training effect; what is it? The training effect is your body’s response to the effort of training. You push your body through hard efforts and your body responds and adapts. What are the elements of that …
