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Day: June 16, 2014

Memories from a Back of the Pack Runner

Memories from a Back of the Pack Runner

I’ve always been a back of the pack runner. I finish in the bottom 20% regularly. And while I’ve done my best to get faster, I seem to be perpetually slow. Always. (Another topic for another day). I have also been amongst the bottom 5% (or maybe the bottom 1% even), especially when I was starting out. In the super early days of this blog, I wrote a short post about my first 10k, the Chattahoochee Challenge 10k. “It was…

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Training Recap – Pushing through Physical Inertia

Training Recap – Pushing through Physical Inertia

As much as I wish that every week of training is filled with enthusiasm and great results, it is not always the case. Some weeks, I’m positively bursting with energy and wish that I could do more, and some weeks I’m dragging myself to do anything, if at all anything. As this week’s training recap will show, I was mentally willing but physically tired. And since it is always the mind that has the upper hand, it was easy for…

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