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Author: Paul Radcliffe
September 28, 2011
My Double-Dip Weekend!
Date Event Goal Time Chip Time Gun Time 2011/09/24 Oasis Zoo Run < 1:00 56:48.2 1:07:01.6 2011/09/25 Oakville Half-Marathon 2:30 2:28:51.7 2:30:09.3 On the weekend of September 24-25 I ran two road races: The Oasis Zoo Run 10k and the Oakville Half-Marathon. Each race was a great learning experience, as was the experience of racing back-to-back. I did several things that weekend I probably shouldn’t have, but I live to tell about it! That weekend had been marked on my calendar for a long time. According to my marathon training schedule, my long run that weekend was supposed to be[…continue reading]
September 19, 2011
Rest and Future Goals
This may sound like blasphemy and sacrilege, but I didn’t run last weekend. In fact, I haven’t run in 5 days! Before you flame me endlessly, I can explain! The last month has been rough. I’ve been pushing over 50km a week! My 8k run last Wednesday was agonizingly painful. This is a feeling I’ve had before. The first time I had this was last summer at the same time for similar reasons. I made the mistake of running through it last summer and had a nagging injury that lasted months. I’m going to consider skipping my last two runs as[…continue reading]
September 2, 2011
Interesting Nutritional Notions
A holistic nutritionist spoke at our Running Room Clinic last night. She has interesting notion about nutrition which I think makes some really good sense. She calls herself ‘holistic’ because she bases her practice on what our grandparents would have eaten. I think that’s very logical, because even 50 years ago, food much less processed, contained less additives, and many of our grandparents lived very long and healthy lives. She also acknowledged that even natural foods we eat today have less nutritional content because local soils are becoming nutrient deprived. My biggest beefs over many of these diet approaches is[…continue reading]
