#80: Solid training w/smart recovery works for a PR this time

If I only had those shoes…. And so, my journey continues….this week was a race week and therefore a step back from the training volume, but I didn’t want to lose too much ground since this was still just a “build” race and not my big race by a longshot, so I tried to only trim the weekend back and keep the week pretty solid.  From a quality standpoint, I was pretty happy with my sessions:Monday – was Memorial Day […]

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#77b Insects are high in protein (and other pearls learned during endurance training)

I figured, since I’m normally writing this on Sunday and talking about the trials of training, and since I pretty much summed this week up with my blog post #77a (HERE if you didn’t read it….it’s a pretty realistic look into what’s running through the head of an endurance athlete when the training week is done), I’d just give you a quick update on some of the pearls I’ve learned while “out there” say ahh! 1. IN THROUGH THE NOSE, […]

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#76: This weeble wobbles but doesn’t fall down

It was a bounce back week for me……my first gut check of this training season…..after feeling pretty good and being forced to (yet again) learn the lesson that one is NEVER to tempt fate by saying this out loud or in blog form, I was faced with the opportunity to be the clown that keeps coming back for another punch in the face and yet find a way to keep that silly smile on my face……yes…..let’s be clear, I am […]

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