Are tapers over-rated? When I’ve been training at a high level and then suddenly I reduce the load, it doesn’t take long before I start feeling terrible. I often feel like I’m getting fat and losing fitness. All the benefits of my hard training are evaporating. No two ways about it for me: tapers suck. …
I’m sure you’d rather read about the training secrets of guys like Hal and Graham who’ve actually won WS, but since neither of them is likely to reveal his secrets (although lc did get a handful of gems this weekend from Hal) this will have to do for now. Below are ten WS training secrets …
Here are the answers to the Michigan Bluff Trivia Contest. Not sure of the exact score but I’m going to give shirts to Paul Charteris and Anthony Brantley. Carol without an E also did very well, but she already has a shirt and I got most of these answers from materials that were in her …
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Seems like everybody at some point in their running career will get injured before an important event. You’ve been training hard for months, following your schedule, getting fitter each week, and then blammo – out of nowhere you get stopped dead in your tracks. It’s happened to me several times in my 31 years of …
At mile 55.7 of the Western States Endurance Run course you enter the quaint little town of Michigan Bluff, California. As many towns in the foothills of the Sierra, their rich history began after gold was discovered in 1848 at nearby Sutter’s Mill in Coloma. These towns boomed with activity as thousands of miners chased …