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 …
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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Following the great posts on the first six days of Michigan Bluff Training Camp 2011 by the creative, talented, fast, and hairy Lewis Taylor, with my own writing is likely to be disappointing, so I’ll only write a little and then let pictures tell the story. Suffice to say that the last four days of …
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I know WS polling is AJW‘s specialty, but I figured I’d take a stab at one myself, in Conduct The Juices style. You can vote for at most three of the following 2011 WS predictions until the end of May: Did I miss any?
This is year number ten for me preparing to run Western States. Yes, I only have seven finishes; in 2006 I got injured and couldn’t start, and 2008 we all got rejected because of the fires. Ten years of preparing for one big race means that all the pieces of the training are dialed in …