Training

Have you seen workouts on social media and thought “wow, that’s a great workout, I should try it”? Or watched one and thought “I’m not working hard enough”?

I’ve been watching recently how common this occurrence is. From “adult onset” runners who haven’t had the opportunity to have a good coach teach them how to build a training plan to younger runners who haven’t yet learned the lessons to people close to runners who want to see the best for their runners and think the answer is what they see on social media.

Watching Instagram workoutsRead More »

Last week, I ran a little over 74 miles. That makes 2023 the 30th consecutive year that I’ve had at least one week of 70 or more miles.

Especially for someone who doesn’t like the idea of chasing numbers, why does this matter?

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This winter has been interesting. It kind of feels like an interval workout. Short bursts of intense winter with rest periods of quite mild weather.

However, those short bursts of intense winter weather have probably affected your training to some extent. Also, at least here in Wisconsin, we can rest assured that winter isn’t done with us yet.

When winter is done with you or when you get a break in winter like we’ve received at least a couple times here in Wisconsin, I’d like to encourage you to not get too carried away right away.

Don’t come out of winter too hotRead More »

The 2002 Lakefront Marathon was run on a day with 25-30 mile per hour winds gusting to 50 miles per hour. Almost the entire race was run with a headwind.

Over its history, the Boston Marathon has included snow, historic winds and extreme heat. On a few occasions, they even have had good conditions.

Racing in bad conditionsRead More »