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I started this blog in 2018 when I started training for my first marathon – The San Francisco Marathon. Since then, I have used it to document my running journey. Now I will use this to document my run coaching journey. If you want to follow my journey, feel free to subscribe at the bottom of the page.
Latest Posts
- A year of reset, refocus and recoveryI celebrated my birthday recently and since I haven’t posted for a while, I thought I’d write a recap of my 2022/23 year. Overall, I’m grateful for all the things that happened this year, both good and bad. I stepped down from WRNY just before my birthday last year. I wanted to take the year …
- My Recovery Journey – Lessons Learned and Still LearningWarning: long post. If you just want to read the lessons learned, skip to the end. In Aug 2021, I completed Muskoka 70.3. It was a tough race but I finished and I was on top of the world. After a couple of rest days, I felt good so I resumed running again. 2 weeks …
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- Taper, rest, and reverse taper2-3 weeks before your goal race, you should start tapering which simply means to reduce your volume while keeping the same frequency. Tapering allows your body to recover and restores glycogen stores in your body for optimal performance on race day. Keep running the same number of days but reduce the volume by 30% each …
- How to fuel post-run for optimal recoveryYour body uses carbs for energy and protein to rebuild muscle. After a run, you need to refuel with both. For optimal recovery, refuel as soon as possible, ideally within 2 hours. The typical recommended ratio is 3:1 or 4:1 carb to protein but based on a recent meta-analysis (PMID 32826640), this is only good …
- A year of reset, refocus and recovery
- My Recovery Journey – Lessons Learned and Still Learning
- Taper, rest, and reverse taper
- How to fuel post-run for optimal recovery
- Run, Fuel, Repeat
- How to run through the summer heat
- What I learned about gait analysis
- Meet Cara, one of my first guinea pigs
- What is specificity?
- What are intervals and why you should do them
- What are strides and why should you do them?
- What is a 30-minute field test and should I do one?
- Hills are good for you!
- Why should you do tempo runs?
- Why is it so hard to run easy?
- What the heck is a fartlek?
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