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What should I drink? One of the groups I follow on Facebook is “Runners loving Running”. It’s full of stupid questions. Ok…OK…I hear you groaning…they are not stupid questions, they just seem stupid to me. So that makes me a stupid observer. They ask things that are unanswerable: What kind of shoes should I wear …
Fasted Running Not ‘Fast Running’, or ‘Faster Running’ – but ‘Fasted Running’. Like running when you haven’t eaten for a long time. This week I experimented with running fasted. Why? It’s a long story. Shall we start at the beginning with some historical exposition? Or should we jump into Act Two where I’m wondering what …
How to not fall down in the trails And other sad stories of endurance… My friends, I was out in the trails this morning and I didn’t bring my phone, but I did bring my dog, and I was thinking about trail running in this season of my life and I was trying not to …
What’s it like to transition from a marathon and ultra training to cycling training? Pretty good once you get into the rhythm of it. What am I doing? I’m training for an event that I made up. Because I find that made up events are my personal favorites. When you make up an event it …
Mileage curves Let’s break it down. One of the big ‘light bulb’ moments for me when I started to get serious about training and racing was that the quantity of miles that you run makes a difference. Having just listened to what I just said, that’s a big ‘duh!’ statement. But, there’s a nuance that …
