Ramblings From The Road

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Today’s Lab: Practical Applications of Heart Rate Training Time to put my money where my mouth is. Or practice what I preach. Or at least follow through with the training technique I was so fascinated by in May that I wrote a two part manifesto on the subject.  (If you missed it, click here for […]

Compression!

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Apparently, there’s such a thing as too much of a good thing.  As with most thing, compression must be used in moderation.  In hindsight, this is kind of a “duh” moment. Those of you who follow my DailyMile may recall that between the Sunburst Marathon and Grandma’s I made several mentions of a Mystery Pain […]

This is part 2 of 2.  Which means that if you missed part 1, you are certainly missing out.  There’s probably a hole in your soul that is shaped approximately like this prior post.  Now that you’ve filled that void, you are appropriately prepared to continue.  Wear protection.  (And yes, I am well aware that […]

One of the things I committed to doing in order to improve my training is to start using heart rate based training instead of just taking the pace times that Runners World SmartCoach or similar tools auto-generated. Very shortly thereafter, I learned that there’s about 50 different “best practices” on how to go about this.