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Pace Team Pitfalls Things to consider when you decide to follow the pace group… I was at a marathon last week. The pace group leader cruised through the aid station. He quickly grabbed a cup and motored on. His little flock of runners broke and scattered as they struggled to fill up bottles like a …
The ‘Real’ Mass Olympic Triathlon Race Report No sand worms but a good day. Being as non-OCD as they come I figured I could plug the race start address into my iPhone maps and it would get me there. The race venue was a state park of some sort in Winchendon, Mass – less than …
What I learned from this extended training cycle. You can always go deeper, but there are diminishing returns. I went deep in this training cycle. My target, or more appropriately ‘re-target’ race at Vermont Cities Marathon coming up this weekend will mark 7 months of work. That is probably the longest sustained training cycle I …
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Connecting the dots. Since the end of December I have had to drive to the airport a different way. I have been driving in to Logan airport for 30 years, sometimes 3 times a week. When I have to get up and go to the airport at 4:00 AM I can get there, literally, with …
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7 benefits of taking a week off What did we learn? Due to a sore back I took last week totally off from training. What happened? Was it good? Was it bad? What kind of effect does taking a week off have? Well, here are 7 things I took away from the experience. Reduced workout …
