Are You Living It?

A la Dan, a few random thoughts:

-how to pick a great coach: go with the one who EXPLAINS things to you (even if you don’t really want to know). It’s not mysticism - there should be a reason for every workout you are assigned. The greatest coaches coach you so that you COULD coach yourself one day (even though you probably won’t want to because having a coach provides a lot of intrisic benefits). If they can explain it, then they understand it well enough to prescribe it…Janda was always expounding on the science of his choices and giving me links to resources because he valued an INFORMED athlete. That told me he wasn’t afraid to be challenged or questioned, and security is a sign of competence.

ok…I admit, I’ve been away awhile. Things have been busy in a good but hectic kind of way, so blogging fell along the wayside. I’m sure you managed to carry on without me.

But I’m back. And the things that have been tumbling around in my head during workouts (i.e. the thoughts that form the foundations for all my entries) need somewhere to go!

Guess that food, using the ingredients list:

1. wheat flour (enriched with barley malt, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, soy fiber, wheat bran, high fructose corn syrup, wheat gluten, yeast, whole weat, corn starch, guar gum, caramel color, salt, mono & diglycerides, ethoxylated mono and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate, soybean oil, calcium sulfate, calcium propionate (preservative), calcium peroxide.

What is it???

Guess this one:

Good luck to all the big boys and girls who are racing down at Clearwater 70.3 World Championships tomorrow…Amanda, Liam, Nick, and all of Janda’s other athletes in particular (John Anthony…I feel your pain brother). You will all do great - I know it.

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Two wicked fun days of awesome workouts outside with friends…and I think it’s about time for me to suck it up and start back on the training track for next year. The running has been coming along well with the exception of my little whooping cough this past week, but that’s cleared up and I should be good to go on the path to a 22 minute 5k.

I feel like I’m reliving the nightmare of trying to get in IM after IM and repeatedly getting shut out when registration sold out before I could even refresh my browser. Only this time, it’s just for the Level I USAT Coaching Certification Clinic! I mean, my gosh, pretty soon there is going to be a one-to-one ratio of athletes to coaches if these clinics are going this fast!

Awesome tool at runnersworld.com. Helps you prevent, diagnose, and treat injuries effectively. Check it out…

http://www.runnersworld.com/runnersbody/

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Last week, tempo run felt hard at 7:55 pace. Maybe I could try 7:50 next week. This week, J says…you are too slow. You are running your VO2 Max sets at 7:05, 5k goal pace is 7:15. Tempo should be no more than 20 seconds slower. So I run tempo tonight at 7:20 (1st blown interval) - 7:40 pace (the other 3 all deadon).

Voila…the power of expectations.

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