All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
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
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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NordicTrack recently reached out to me to work on a project with them and I am excited to be able to share that project with you.
Some other blogging runners and I were brought together by NordicTrack to help runners everywhere learn how to develop targeted treadmill workouts. So, if you want your treadmill runs to be more targeted for your running needs, keep on reading!
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Last week, I had three runs that stuck out on my training log: 6 miles at 9:00 pace, 5 miles at 8:55 pace, and 7 miles at 8:56 pace.
Given the fact that I also had a 15 mile run at 7:58 pace and a workout where I ran mile repeats in the 6:13-6:14 range and half mile repeats at 5:40 pace, I think you can see why those runs stuck out.
Was I disappointed with those runs? Not one bit.
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To some runners, this is all that matters. To others, this doesn’t matter at all.
What matters to you? What would you consider a win or loss?
These are things that we should keep in mind when we plan our running.
Why?
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