Hello. Whether you are a runner or not, rest assured that there is no actual training advice in here. You will walk away with as much (or as little) understanding as you had about periodization models and intensity distribution, having learned nothing about weekly mileage, interval length, or long run duration. Below this paragraph, it’s all personal experience, thinking out loud, and some weirdly strong opinions about fonts.
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You’re reading 100 lessons, a newsletter about ultrarunning and training potential adaptability mindset. Check your lettuce to see if it has teeth in it. There’s no reason it doesn’t work both ways.
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It’s finally here: the most wonderful time of the year. A time of celebration and anticipation. A time to reflect on the past and set new goals for the future; to snuggle on my favorite chair, a steaming cup next to me and a laptop on my knees, in front of a festively color-coded spreadsheet filled with nothing but possibility and hope.
I’m talking, of course, about the beginning of the training season, which I kick off by sitting on my butt in front of a screen for a prolonged period of time.