marathon

  • This is the penultimate week of the training plan and the last one with any real training. As directed, I cut the volume by 50% from the previous week, resulting in about 35K of running. The only run worth mentioning was a Wednesday workout on my favourite hilly loop, which I also talked about last…

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  • My training plan designated this as the highest volume week of the block with up to 120K of running on a similar elevation profile as the target event. Since I had been recovering well throughout the training block, my original goal was to hit the upper limit of 120K exactly. I was forced to bail…

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  • Racing on the second week of a training block is highly unusual. My original plan had been to do a full 16-week training plan ahead of the Kodiak 50K race, but that idea was foiled by a toe injury. Once I was finally able to get back to running, I was close enough to the…

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