Training

Starting a Recovery Mini-Series!

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Over the next few days, I’ll be continuing to build out one of the other essential pieces for the Athletic Time Machine site— RECOVERY!  If you want to race and train like a younger athlete, you have to recover like one.

I’ll be adding three posts with less-known tricks I use to enhance recovery.  Of course, all this will be archived on the site and also summarized under the Enter the Time Machine section of the site.

Thanks for reading and be sure to like the Athletic Time Machine Facebook page or follow this site to keep up-to-date with the latest.

Purposeful Carbohydrate Depletion

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Yesterday, a post came across the Running Writings site that piqued my interest. It was about the weekly long run— a ritual of marathon runners— and it suggested that we all do them wrong. This post is a quick synopsis of why and what to do about it.

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Lactate Clearance Intervals, MCT-1, Arrhythmias, and Why You Need Speed

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EKG ImageA few weeks ago, I did some very short, high-intensity sprints in the middle of a zone two bike ride.  The sprints left me feeling exhausted far more than they should have, so I thought it was probably a good idea to do two things: get some more low-intensity aerobic training in and to simultaneously work on some really high intensity interval work.  This post explains why this might not be a bad idea after a couple of weeks of hard racing.

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How I Travel

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This week has seen me doing a fair amount of travel for a client.  I travel a fair amount for work and have racked up my share of airline miles, but I don’t travel nearly as much as others.  With my whole family on the east coast and a race schedule that has me on a jet at least annually, there are a few tips to travel that I thought I would pass along– and hopefully get some thoughts flowing.

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Review: Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot

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Cover of Heart Monitor Training Book

This is a quick review of John Parker’s book, Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot (3d ed. 2009).  If the name John Parker sounds familiar to you, it should.  He wrote what is perhaps the best novel book on running, Once a Runner.  Turns out that Mr. Parker is a pretty good coach too.  Here are the key takeaways from my quick read of this great book. Continue reading →

Philip Skiba: The Best Triathlon Coach You May Never Have Heard Of

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Covers of Philip Skiba's books

Years and year ago, Coach Tom (one of my former coaches) recommended that I pick up a copy of  Philip Skiba’s Scientific Training for Triathletes.   Coach Tom described the book as, “the best book on triathlete training that I have ever read.”  Coach Tom is not one for hyperbole so I ordered the book immediately by express mail. Continue reading →

Beyond Lydiard: Why I Prefer Non-Traditional Training Models

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Over the past ten years or so, there’s been a gentle tide change in the way that coaches approach training for long-distance running.  While it’s most often talked about in terms of running, it has application across all endurance sports, so this change definitely affects duathletes and triathletes as well.

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Fun Time Trial Training Video

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I love YouTube videos of folks doing insane things with a portable video cameras.  Base jumping into caves in Mexico, flying the Red Bull Air Race, or ripping through a downhill mountain bike run– thanks to products like GoPro cameras, we can now get an inkling of what’s it like to do some crazy stuff.  I hinted earlier that I bought a Garmin Virb camera to liven up my posts, so I thought I would post a video of what it is like to ride my absolute favorite time trial workout. If you’re interested in extreme videos, read no further.  But if you’re interested in my world, here’s a taste.

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