It is no secret that I’ve been unhappy with my race times since leaving Rochester. I’ve had a few theories/excuses, but looking at the graph above it should be no surprise that I ran all my best times between 2011 and 2015. Even if I never run a PR again, I can still put in …
Category Archives: Training
Stupid Knee
I’m slowly nursing my right knee back to health. It is giving me no pain just walking around, but I’ve had to wear a patella strap under the knee cap to be able to run. At first I could only run a mile before I had to take off the strap and rest it for …
Thaw
When Bob Dylan was 23 years old he wrote (among a few other songs) My Back Pages. The song ends with the verse Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats Too noble to neglect Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect Good and bad, I define these terms Quite clear, no doubt, …
Time is nothing but a faulty human construct
Back in the halcyon days of my youth I did speed workouts twice a week with reckless abandon, and then raced or did a long run every weekend. Eventual both my ability to recover and my available time to train decreased to the point where I could no longer sustain such a training load. It …
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