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Category: General Running and/or Fitness
August 20, 2014
Daniels’ Training Phase IV: Final Quality
It’s amazing how quickly time flies. If feels like only yesterday that I picked up Jack Daniels’ book and started drafting my Jack Daniels Inspired Summer Training Program. Now I’m almost done Phase III: Transition Quality and moving into the final stretch, Phase IV: Final Quality. This last phase is normally when I would be tapering, but Dr. Daniels’ takes a different approach. The last week feels almost like an anti-taper with a significant amount of easy miles. I’ve trusted the plan so far, so I’ll trust this too. The last week of this is the strangest. I’m used to taking it very easy[…continue reading]
August 18, 2014
In Praise of the #5amRunClub
I posted some motivational images about running early in the morning on this post, but this post will talk about it in detail. One of the biggest challenges of my current Jack Daniels inspired training program was finding time to do five runs each week. I constantly saw dailymile posts by Nicole, Sam, Emma, Patty and others featuring the hastag #5amRunClub, so I decided to join in. I wasn’t disappointed. (To be fair, the idea of running early in the morning wasn’t entirely foreign to me; I ran early in the morning during my Dopey Training last fall) It is[…continue reading]
August 15, 2014
Distance Running Time Dilatation
Our society is very fast paced. We live in an era of instant messages and instant gratification. No one has time for anything! Our attention span has been reduced to twitter messages of 140 characters or less. Magazines promote that we can lose “10 pounds by the weekend!” It’s possible to communicate “face-to-face” with anyone almost anywhere in the world. And we have instantaneous access to the collective information of human history through smartphones. And yet, everyone seems busier than ever and don’t seem to have time for anything! I suppose it’s ironic that running, a sport that is synonymous with speed, has made[…continue reading]
