IT HAPPENED AGAIN last week. I was at Body Specs for my usual Thursday torture session strength workout, working on the half foam. This is basically a foam roller cut in half lengthwise, and you stand on the flat part while the round part is under you. I use it both for ankle strengthening (through …
Category: Strength Training
Sleeping On It
Boy, it’s been an unpredictable September for me. At least in my athletic training world. Kind of like things happening in reverse order. My month kicked off, as I detailed in a previous post, at the Miakonda Trail Ultra, where, despite the head and an upset stomach, I ground out 52 miles, meeting my stretch …
Loup Garou Two: Recovery and Guilt
I’ve heard some people experience a letdown after completing an ultra. There’s even a name for it: Post-Race Letdown, or PRLD. There’s no consensus on why, but one reason may come from an attitude that you trained hard for a goal, you achieved it, now what? And sometimes there are also feelings of guilt during …
Take Care of Myself? Good Idea, Wimp
Would someone please slap me upside my neofrontal cortex and tell me that resting and eating ice cream while I’m sick does not make me a lazy glutton. Because any time I skip some training, part of my brain is nags me about it, good reason or not. I came down with a cold or …
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