#14: Sometimes, well, the bear eats you……….I need a sarsaparilla

***DISCLAIMER*** The following blog is not for the weak……a topic I hope never to have to discuss (or experience) again……the dude abides.What started out as a strong week headed into Saturday with great anticipation (or something).  It was to be my first full-day brick, the kind of fabled workout that gives ultradistance its mystique……the kind of workout that invokes the “You did WHAT yesterday?  Seriously, you’re nuts” defense by friends and family who enjoy less active pursuits.  The kind that […]

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#13 Whew….it’s getting too hot in this pot

It’s been said that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water it will try to jump out, but if you put it in at room temperature and bring the heat up slowly it will just bathe-away until it’s someone’s dinner.  No matter which side of the boiled frog as food conversation you shake out on, the concept is not much different than the life we often find ourselves in……..the slow changes in life that we don’t […]

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#12 Break on through; SET………pull

Training is a finely tuned game of details.  Push a little bit, back off to recover, push a little more, back it down again, etc.  The push can be intensity, duration or frequency, but the back-off part of this balance might just be the more important part of the equation if the goal is to keep building.  Not only from an injury standpoint, but from a performance standpoint as well.In part, this is real-life wisdom gained by people who have […]

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