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Have you noticed it? I have. I started noticing it during the spring classics in March and April. I am talking about how different pro cycling races look since last year's Le Tour de Fiasco. When Operation Puerto began exposing the names of alleged dopers, team sponsors began pulling out as quickly as the accusations were being flung at nearly all the top riders. Cycling was a mess. Many wondered if the sport could rebound from something this damaging. No sponsors, no support, no cycling. P... Read More
Should I do track work? I get this question with some frequency. And yes, there are reasons to do it. But your goals and/or your coach should dictate whether you give it a shot. Track work is useful in that it helps us understand pacing. It allows us to feel what it's like to pace ourselves to hit a particular split time for a particular set of intervals. For example, I have two clients who have run about four marathons apiece. They decided to take this fall off from marathoning a... Read More
I just finished training some folks for the Boston Marathon. They unanimously said they sometimes feel like they train to taper. That made me giggle. I've felt that way too at the end of several months of intense marathon training. Tapering into a big race is vital. But I find there are misconceptions about what makes a good taper. I coach my clients so that taper involves a reduction of volume (the race distance and the athlete's experience dictates how much) but a sustaining of intensi... Read More
I find that the older I get the less sleep I seem to need. I can get by easily on seven hours now. Back even a few years ago less than eight and I was in trouble. Though we sleep less as we age, the paradox is that sleep becomes more important to us as athletes as we get older. It is the time our body recovers and repairs from our training. Sleep less and you recover less. Recent studies have also connected lack of sleep to acceleration of the aging process. Slee... Read More
Who do you train with? Anyone? By yourself or with a few people? Are you in a program with a larger group? Is one preferably over the others? Even with individual sports, the people you train with are a very key part of your program. So I have a few rules of thumb for the people who I coach, most of whom are runners, triathletes and cyclists -- individual sports participants for the most part. First, don't compromise or change your training plan to accommodate someone else. Make s... Read More
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