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Posts Tagged ‘rest’


2nd Annual Maine Coach & Athlete Cross Country Clinic (Part V: The Athlete’s Panel)

The 2nd annual Maine Coach and Athlete Cross Country Clinic was on August 18th, 2008 at the University of Southern Maine. This is the third part of my reporting on the clinic; the first part was about injury prevention and treatment, the second part was about nutrition basics and fueling, and the third part was [...]

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This Week Last Year: Halloween, Rest, and New York City

This week last year I began my final preparations for the New York City marathon and completed my marathon preparation series. I finished up the series on rest by describing how to time rest during a workout. I described different types of rest, and gave a few tips that I use to measure my rest [...]

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This Week Last Year: Marathon Preparation

This week last year was dominated once again by thoughts of the marathon, but this time I wrote my series on marathon preparation. My marathon preparation series consisted of 9 articles of 9 bullet points each. The first couple of articles just happened to come out that way, so I ran with it and made [...]

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This Week Last Year: Marathon Strategy, Vitamins and Head Lamps

This week last year I was getting ready for the New York City marathon, although that did not keep me from racing. I had not quite started tapering yet, though. I planned out my NYC race strategy, since I would be pacing a friend through his first one. Our race almost exactly mimicked the race [...]

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This Week Last Year: Bonking, Doping, and Cheating (oh my!)

This week last year touched on a whole range of subjects, from weight lifting to drugs to accidental cheaters and how purposefully bonk during a workout. I shared my experience of lifting weights after breaking my ring finger. It had had a week to heal, and while there were no rings that were going to [...]

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This Week Last Year: Marathons, Vegetables, and a Scale

Thanksgiving week last year was pretty slow. There was some random football news, but it is not really very relevant anymore. Although it was kind of funny that Jay Feeley missed so many field goals. I still believe that weighing yourself daily is not only a healthy thing to do but is also an important [...]

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Taking time off is hard

I have used the start of Winter as a time to recover from a long racing season. My racing season usually starts in late winter, peters out a bit after my Spring marathon, and then goes full bore through the Summer and until my Autumn marathon. After the Autumn marathon I give my legs a [...]

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Timing Rest

In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we wrote about rest for the month of October. This is the final article in our series. There will be a link to each topic at the bottom of this article. The easiest way to time your rest is with a sports watch [...]

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