The athletes I work with don’t run enough. The reason the two athletes, Sara and Renee, didn’t run more this past season was due to training age (Sara) and history of injuries (Renee). Sara will need to train more and train harder in the coming year and Renee has now been injury free [...]

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Yesterday was a big day…first day of the 2009 edition of the Boulder Running Camps, but also two great races for Sara and Renee. I have yet to find race video for Sara, but she ran 4:11.39, a three second PR. This was the race that she and I were really hoping for [...]

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Preface: I obviously put off this post because the weekend wasn’t fantastic, yet I’m also worried that it’s somewhat self absorbed to spend a whole post talking about my thoughts on Sara and Renee’s weekend. Feel free to comment below if this type of post is annoying, inappropriate or just plain boring.
Question: What did [...]

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Sara ran well in the first round of the 800m last night at the USATF meet in Eugene. She runs again tonight and you can watch it live here. Renee ran the 1,500m and didn’t run the last 200m well, yet she runs the 5,000m tonight. In both cases I’m sure some [...]

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Renee races Friday at the Portland Track Festival; she’ll run 15:50 pace for a while, then try to accelerate in the latter stages of the race.
I thought the Magnolia Road workout below would be of interest as it’s long and it’s challenging…and after the run she did 30 min of GS, though I have yet [...]

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A fun early ‘09 race – women’s 1,500m at Arizona State’s Sun Angel Classic.

1 Palmer, Katie BYU [...]

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