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Day one Thursday, June 1st. 55 Degrees and sunny. Rained hard last night. Trails are soft. Woke up at 4:58. Alarm set at 5:01. Funny how that works. Hit the rack at 9:15 last night. One thing about getting up early and front loading your day is that you don’t feel like staying up …
Wapack 2016 Piano wires. I love the Wapack Trail race. It is everything I dig in a race. Trees, mountains, rocks, roots, dirt and blood. Nothing pretentious about this race. Good, honest, every day trail runners show up and run it. It’s hard enough to scare off the uninitiated but not so hard as to …
What did I learn from Boston this year? They say you should learn from your failures. Tony Robbins would say “It’s only a failure if you don’t learn anything.” So I thought I’d go back and look at my 2016 Boston Marathon and see if I could learn anything. Train smart to reach your potential. …
How Speed Work makes everything else easier. I don’t know why, but it does. What am I talking about now? Why all this ranting about speed work? Speed work this! Speed work that! Get over it Chris. No I won’t. It’s important. I know the majority of runners these days are just out there for …
Am I ready for my goal marathon? It has never ceased to surprise me how emotionally wrapped people get at the end of a training cycle when the race itself is in reach. By the time they get to the end of a training cycle they are so emotionally invested in the process that they …
