Ryan

This week, my daughter and her teammates are going up to Minnesota for one of the biggest high school meets in the country. It’s affecting both the team’s training and mine.

Of course, it’s affecting theirs more than mine. I’m just along for the ride. However, I think it might be enlightening to see how everyone is affected and how we might be flexible with our training plans in order to account for things like this trip. You might be surprised to see that we’re all being flexible with our training in similar ways.

Flexible planningRead More »

Maybe this is general life advice but I wanted to share it because I just wrote a post for Club HillRunner.com members that evolved as I was writing it for one simple reason.

I started off with an objective: explaining a way to measure your level of consistency because I think it’s better to be consistent even with a slightly slower PR than inconsistent even if your PR is a little faster.

Be open to different paradigmsRead More »

I know, the subject of this post seems like an oxymoron, right? If you’re being flexible with the plan, how can you be consistent?

To understand this, we need to understand two things.

Flexibility leads to consistencyRead More »

The “double threshold” workout is taking over the world! From Jakob Ingebrigtsen to all kinds of runners in Flagstaff, they are being applied with a lot of success.

As always happens, with success comes emulation. Other pros and collegiate runners have already picked up on these workouts and they are filtering down through to high school and amateur adult runners.

Is this a good idea, though?

Double Thresholds and other such workoutsRead More »