Big picture or small details?
What matters more, the big picture or the small details?
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Training
All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
Prove your fitness on race day, not in workouts
About a month ago, I ran a 5 mile race at 6:03 pace. Cesar asked me how I could run that pace for a 5 mile race when my mile repeat workouts were slower (generally 6:20-6:30 pace in early spring, working down to 6:10-6:20 pace). As I recall, I offered a two part response.
First, I was doing shorter repeats at faster than 6:00 pace so it wasn’t a pace I was unfamiliar with.
Second, I wasn’t racing my workouts. I would expect my mile repeats to be slower than 5 mile race pace. If they weren’t, I’d be close to race effort in my workouts.
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Rebounding from a busy holiday
I hope all of my fellow Americans had a wonderful 4th of July. I ended up keeping things low key but this past weekend, when I spent 12 hours at a theme park on Saturday, got me thinking about what some of you may be facing right now: that fatigue from a busy day or two.
It will affect your running but how to do keep that to a minimum? Here’s what I did to minimize the impacts on my running.
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Past, present, future
The past is over. You can’t change it.
The future isn’t here yet. You can’t do anything about it until it arrives.
However, the present is here right now and you can do your best to take care of it.
Want to know something amazing? Take care of the present and the past and future tend to take care of themselves.
Photo credit: PAST.PRESENT.FUTURE. by Estibaliz Saez de Ibarra, on Flickr
Tracking devices: what’s useful?
About three months ago, I got the new Garmin Forerunner 645 after dealing with some issues for about 9 months with my old Forerunner.
The 645 is an amazing device on many levels. As a running device and fitness tracker, it measures about everything you could imagine that something simply strapped to your wrist can. It’s not perfect at everything but what it can do is pretty amazing.
That said, there have been plenty of reviews of this device. This is not about the device itself. It’s about the usefulness of all the things our watches can track these days. As I’ve stated before, all of this data can be a blessing and a curse.
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