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Author: Paul Radcliffe
March 16, 2012
Hundred Up Challenge!
I’m finally jumping on the bandwagon and trying the “Hundred Up Challenge.” If you haven’t heard of this, you must be living under some sort of rock. It has been all over the online running community, especially since Christoper McDougall gave it a raving review. The concept is pretty simple: Repeat an exercise where you lift each leg 50 times so that it’s parallel to the ground. This forces you to have a correct posture, use your hip flexors and land on your forefoot. The idea is to do it for 30 days and see if you have an improvement in[…continue reading]
March 15, 2012
Neat Graphic of Race Times
While looking at someone’s profile on dailymile, I noticed that someone won something from Road Warrior Running. I thought I could win something so I registered. The site then directed me to Road Race Results so that it could collect my info. I guess they mine the sportstats race results or something because most of my Ontario race results were already there. The site then took all my results and created this really neat graphic: I think the graphic is very neat and tells a nice story. By “normalizing” all of my times to their relative 5k times, it shows my[…continue reading]
March 13, 2012
Chilly Half-Marathon 2012 Race Report
Date Event Goal Time Chip Time Gun Time 2012/03/04 Chilly Half-Marathon 2:00 – 2:10 2:03:22.2 2:06:43.2 This will be a race to remember. It was the cumulation of a personal experiment in program design while also leading a clinic. On all fronts, I would say it was a personal and athletic triumph! Training Season Review This has been a very different training season for me. Since March, I have been a the instructor for the half-marathon clinic at my local Running Room. I felt becoming an instructor was a natural progression after being a student in these clinics[…continue reading]
