Long sleeve weather and your watch
Last week got chilly here in Wisconsin. The long sleeves came out, at least for me.
When the long sleeves come out, I love to use them as a tool for more than just keeping the arms warm.
…Training
All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
Flexible planning
This week, my daughter and her teammates are going up to Minnesota for one of the biggest high school meets in the country. It’s affecting both the team’s training and mine.
Of course, it’s affecting theirs more than mine. I’m just along for the ride. However, I think it might be enlightening to see how everyone is affected and how we might be flexible with our training plans in order to account for things like this trip. You might be surprised to see that we’re all being flexible with our training in similar ways.
…Be open to different paradigms
Maybe this is general life advice but I wanted to share it because I just wrote a post for Club HillRunner.com members that evolved as I was writing it for one simple reason.
I started off with an objective: explaining a way to measure your level of consistency because I think it’s better to be consistent even with a slightly slower PR than inconsistent even if your PR is a little faster.
…Flexibility leads to consistency
I know, the subject of this post seems like an oxymoron, right? If you’re being flexible with the plan, how can you be consistent?
To understand this, we need to understand two things.
…Double Thresholds and other such workouts
The “double threshold” workout is taking over the world! From Jakob Ingebrigtsen to all kinds of runners in Flagstaff, they are being applied with a lot of success.
As always happens, with success comes emulation. Other pros and collegiate runners have already picked up on these workouts and they are filtering down through to high school and amateur adult runners.
Is this a good idea, though?
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