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Danger Days – 2 Days Out

When participating in a Running Race of any length, there are a few “Danger Days”. Days in which certain activities or lack of them can have negative effects to Race Day performance. Today is 2 days away from the Pistol 50k on … Continue reading

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Warrior Mode Update

This was supposed to be the first part of a series of updates on the my training for the Pistol 50k (31 miles) which I am running on January 2nd 2016 in memory of my late Taekwondo instructor/mentor James Rich. However, some … Continue reading

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Training, better late than never

This post was originally laying out, in general, my training regiment that I would use for the Fall Marathon season. That changed with my diagnosis of pneumonia earlier this month. I haven’t ran since 8/13, a week before the first … Continue reading

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Training Cycles Go Round and Round

I’m hereby officially “In Training” I have tossed in my hat in the weighted lottery for the Flying Monkey Marathon (11/22/15). If for some reason I do not picked in the lottery, my back-up plan is to run Chickamauga Marathon … Continue reading

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Runners, Start your training…

It’s the start of training for the 2013 Fall Marathon season… Continue reading

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Long Run Flipside

Strange things can occur on the long run. This past Sunday, I had something of a time altering experience in which I am driven to write about this small happening rather than finishing up the post that I have dedicated … Continue reading

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What’s Pace Got To Do With It?

“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going … Continue reading

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The Program

I think I have my final product, ready for unveiling. It’s basic in structure, I’ve put most of the fundamental training workouts, although I have left out a key workout – I’ll reveal later, and laid it out so that … Continue reading

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The Training Program is Schroender's Cat

Despite what is written out for a training program on day Number 1, it is still a black box. Much like poor Schroeder’s Cat who is might be alive or might be dead (but for certain is not both), the … Continue reading

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I love it when a TRAINING plan comes together

For the few days when I wasn’t sure if I was going to run Atlanta or run Cincinnatti, I was contemplating the training program on a number of levels mostly on a theoretical level. Then to add some intellectual fuel … Continue reading

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