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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 …
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 …
