All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
Are you late to group runs? Do you miss training runs or workouts regularly?
Are you late to meetings at work? Do you miss appointments?
If you answered yes to the first pair of questions, you probably answered yes to the second pair.
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If something goes wrong in your training plan, what do you do? Do you panic or do you roll with it?
How about if something goes wrong in a race?
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When you line up for a race, what’s going through your mind?
Are you looking at it as a challenge? An opportunity to see how well you can perform?
Or do you see it as a threat, fearing failure?
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Are you planning to try something new this year? If so, have you decided what you’re taking away?
It may seem strange to talk about removing something but, if you’ve already maxed out your training, how can you add something without taking something else away?
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It’s the most simple question that can be asked to assess the usefulness of a training concept: did it work?
However, is that always the right question to ask? What if it appears that it did work but for the wrong reasons? What if it appears to not have worked but some other variable was the problem?
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