#115 Get back up on that collie and ride

If a monkey can ride a dog….   I went into this week with a renewed focus – my semi-annual cold was a thing of the past (“see you in the spring it muttered as it flew out of sight”), and the holiday schedule-blitz was supposed to be over…..life was going to settle and I was going to post big training numbers.  No more monkey-business – time to get back up on that, um, border collie and ride.  MONDAY – started […]

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#114 – The party’s over, now BACK TO WORK

“Christmas week is over, New Year’s week is a thing of the past….and now, well past the start of 2014, it’s time to get back to work”……those were my my thoughts when I woke up this morning…..the day after an insanely cold thermometer reading sealed it as an “inside” day (-6 deg is automatic “indoor” workout for this tender athlete)…..I took a look at my training plan and realized, the viking lady was in the midst of her crescendo…..that today was the […]

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#113 – the 12 phases of ultra-endurance psychology

I’m hoping for leg warmers this year  Most every athlete knows that training goes in phases, or “periods” if you want to tip the cap to the eastern-block origins of “periodization” in sport…..and where on the professional side we typically refer to these with a thick layer of jargon, I like to keep myself grounded with a bit of a normalized translation.  Since the training cycle is, well, cyclical (duh) you can start from any “phase” and work around…..but since […]

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