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Tag: Training
April 2, 2012
Nearing End Of Season
It’s less than 3 weeks until my goal race for this season, the Virgin London Marathon in London, England! Everyone I train with knows and wishes me well, but it hasn’t really hit me that I’m going yet. I thought this was a good time to reflect on my crazy season and set some goals for the next few weeks. I’ve been using dailymile to track my runs since last April. I’m really happy with its functionality for tracking distances. The social media aspect is a really neat bonus. My Training distance (km/week) from October 2011 to March 2012 (dailymile)[…continue reading]
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 8, 2012
Patience
I find it incredibly ironic that patience can be so valuable in a sport predicated on speed. The big change I made this season was to follow the recommended training zones. Usually I struggle to follow the rest of the group, even if that means running way too fast. Leading the clinic gave me the opportunity to run well below my aerobic threshold while still running with people. Even when they sped up, I fell back so that I wouldn’t sacrifice my workout. For hard runs, I made sure I went really slow to warm up before hitting the ‘meat’[…continue reading]
