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Last week was meant to push me toward a breakthrough, another big step in training and fitness. It was long on miles, heavy on workload and fatiguing; and as it turned out, there wasn’t enough time in the week. When I got to the YMCA after writing my last blog entry, I came to realize they close @ 8P on Sunday……so my long swim would have to wait until Monday. Having a little more time to relax was welcoming, but […]
Read moreTo everything there is a season and a time and purpose under heaven – Ecclesiastes 3:1 The Endurance World’s version of this passage is known as “periodization”, which means that there are cycles for just about all aspects of training. This isn’t just endurance sports of course, most sports follow a similar concept. For me, this generally means: Base training followed by build (x1-3 cycles) and then peak training right before the “big” race……and with roughly 2 months out from my […]
Read moreIf 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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