WS Recovery Discussion

I had an interesting thread of comments on my last facebook status update two days ago and it has motivated me to write this post asking 2011 WS runners to share.  Hopefully it will generate a good discussion, and collectively, we might learn something. That status update was that Lewis Taylor and I, because we …

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Burning Fat at 2011 WS 100

Finish line at #WS100 is an awesome display of human achievement and exhaustion. Wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. That was my tweet a little after 5am on Sunday, after the last 24-hour finisher pushed around the track to cross the line with about 15 seconds to spare before the clock reached 5am.  She got …

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Western States In Five Days

With all these changes to the Western States course because of record snowfall (or lack of snowmelt) announced today – no Lyon Ridge, Red Star Ridge, Robinson Flat; no crew access until 55 miles at Michigan Bluff; only two crew members at each shuttle aid station after that – I can understand how runners and …

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Top Ten Mistakes You Aren’t Going To Make

Here are the top ten mistakes you are not going to make in the next 12 days. 10. Run yourself into the ground or to injury.  Yeah, tapering sucks, but the training you do in the next two weeks is more likely to leave you tired than to help you (with the exception of heat …

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