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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Many of you were asking for it and it’s here – Part 3 of the Running Times series. Click here for the progression. Enjoy!

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but a very important step in Sara’s development (2:04.75). A couple days before the race I simply asked her what she was thinking in terms of a race plan. “Sixty point.” Saying sixty point and 1:30-1:31 is one thing; doing it is another. The next day she rabbited the first 800m [...]

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Sprint drills are a realistic part of any runner’s training, yet if you do them you need to do them with maximal attention – sloppiness is far from Godliness here.
Rather than tell you what’s important, please watch the videos and then feel free to ask your questions below. Enjoy.

This video is the “meat” of [...]

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Below are the documents detailing all of Sara Vaughn’s training over the three weeks from April 20th to May 10th. No doubt there are some typos in these documents, but if Sara can deal with them then hopefully you can to
All documents are PDFs and can be downloaded by clicking the links [...]

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