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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 …
Water bottle deep dive Let’s stay hydrated… I had an interesting interaction and a bit of an ‘aha’ moment recently. One of things I do that I think helps my flexibility in endurance sports is I carry a water bottle in one hand. This seems like a simple enough pretense. I’ve been doing this since …
Your Purpose to Start Running What to expect I recently made a list of the things I would do if I was a beginning runner and had to do it all over again knowing what I know now. My first point was that I would figure out what my ‘purpose’ was. My thought was that …
Back to basics – How to become a runner from scratch. Or a better runner There’s an assumption that running is easy. That it involves no specific skills or body of knowledge. The zeitgeist of our sport is that all you have to do is show up, do the work and keep at it to …
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Hill training for Flatlanders How to train for the Newton Hills in the Boston Marathon Holy Cow! It’s been a rough February. Just when you’re supposed to be hitting the meat and potatoes of your marathon training for Boston we get snow and ice all-day and every-day. How do we get ready for those pesky …
