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The Case Against Detailed Race Plans (opens the original)
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As a coach, I’ve given something up that feels close to sacrilegious. I’ve largely stopped giving detailed race plans in championship races.Here’s the problem: a race plan is a hypothetical projection. You factor in statistical probability, game theory, weather, health, a rival’s last race outcomes, and it comes out as a script for an event that hasn’t happened yet. As a coach, you intend for that plan to have flexibility. But most athletes don’t want it to go mostly right. They want it to go ex
Only The Paranoid Survive (opens the original)
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In 1979, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett were arguably the two best middle-distance runners in the world.As the story goes, Coe went out on Christmas morning and did a hard 12-mile run. He came home and had Christmas lunch with his family, but afterward, sitting around, he couldn’t relax.He kept thinking about Ovett. Eventually, he realized what was bothering him: Ovett was probably training again. Later, Coe recalled thinking, “I bet that bastard Ovett’s out there doing his second session of the
How Much of Your Training Is Actually For Your Health? (opens the original)
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If exercise came in a bottle, it would be the most effective drug on the market. Studies have already proven this: across 305 trials and 339,274 people, exercise produced mortality benefits of many mainstream drugs for coronary heart disease, stroke rehabilitation, and prediabetes.And if exercise came with a label, you'd ask the same questions you would about any drug. What dose is beneficial for me? Are there any side effects? In this newsletter, I’ll break down the relationship between exercis
10 Things I Wish I Knew as a High School Runner (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago, I spoke to a high school cross-country team prepping for their season opener. The presentation I gave was one I built almost ten years ago and have refined and enhanced since. With most teams gearing up for cross country seasons, it seemed worth putting on paper and sharing with this audience. All of this information is what I would share with my sixteen-year-old self. Most of it I still remind professional runners. Consistency Beats Perfection Runners mostly dream about who they
Nobody Quits While They’re Ahead (opens the original)
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The end of my elite running career was anticlimactic. There was no fanfare. There was no last personal best I chased down before hanging up the spikes. No moment where I walked off the track knowing that it was my final serious workout.Instead, I had two surgeries in 9 months, and the recovery from the second one lasted long enough that I started to drift away. While I was drifting, I started moving in another direction. Then I was offered a coaching job, and that sealed the deal. In hindsight,
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