I see so many people worrying about that last 1% it takes to be great. Those little things that will make the difference of seconds. I’m not a fan.
Why not? Why not squeeze out every second you can get? What if you come up 3 seconds short of your goal and that extra 1% would have been worth 5 seconds?
…It’s getting to the time of the year where we’ll have to be thinking about dealing with the heat as runners.
What do we know about dealing with the heat? Good ways to manage it? What are the causes of heat problems? What can we do about them?
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Often, runners see a new idea or think over their training and discover that something is missing. They then want to add it to their training. I recently mentioned avoiding getting caught up in the hype of “Instagram workouts” but what I’m thinking of is something more basic and often not a bad idea.
However, we need to be careful when adding new things.
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I mentioned when posting about watching Instagram workouts that I’d write this week about recording these workouts.
To be honest, I want to say just don’t do it. However, I know there are people who want to do this. I also know there are cases where, if you’re a member of a team, you may not get to decide whether or not you are part of a recording.
…It’s well known that, at some point, we all will get slower as we age. Even for non-competitive runners or non-runners at all, we all know we will lose fitness as we age.
But why does this happen? What is the mechanism that makes it happen? If we know this, maybe we can do something about it.
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