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Snippets of sheep and pilot whales I’ve been reading Thoreau’s Cape Cod in short snatches in the morning. I find I can’t read Thoreau like a normal narrative. I need to take it in short shifts to try to digest the dense archaic language and the sometimes-hidden meaning. Cape Cod is one of his funnier …
Nature versus Nurture? Are we really born to run? All of us? How much of our ability is sewn into our genes and how much is developed in our travels on this earth through effort and experience? I look at myself with my mind’s eye and I wonder how I ever got to this place …
Focus When Alexander confronted and defeated Darius, first at Issus and then on the plains of Guagamela, the Macedonian army was outnumbered 3 to 1 and fighting in a hostile and foreign land. How was this young king able to win these battles and gain control of the known world? Alexander was able to focus …
A simple track based speedwork plan for beginners And anyone who is looking to go faster. In the last post I explained to you why doing speedwork on the track is a powerful addition to your running repertoire that goes far beyond effort and speed. Now let me give you some simple rules to keep …
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Heart Rate, Old-School What did people do before HR monitors? It wasn’t that long ago. I was reading some stories from my book into audio and realized that in 2004 functional, wrist-based GPS systems were first getting adopted by the common runner. What did we do before we had heart rate straps? We still had …
