Find balance. Run with my girls. Break 15 in the 5k.
Personal:
Born in 1973 in Southern California.
Ran in high school for Arcadia. They have a famous cross-country team now. In my day, we were famous for dodging our coach during runs.
Over the next 15 years I ran very little, but life was awesome. I lived mostly in Northern California, where I met my wife. We moved back to her native state of Florida in 2005, where I gradually started running more seriously.
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Sun, Sep 27, 2015
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14.00
AM: 14 miles, easy to moderate. A strange mix of peaceful recovery, self-doubt, static noise and expectation. Taper madness.
Comments
From Jason D on Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:23:16 from 68.80.27.222
Sounds like everything is normal over there in St Pete for you, Drew. :-) All this stuff is normal as you know. Take some time to look back over your fall training and you'll build confidence.
There's a research paper on the psychological effects of tapering to be done if there isn't much out there. I am sure there is. Thankfully it's not my area so I don't have to write that one, but when I get some time I'd like to poke around at the research.
From Drew on Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 06:41:20 from 24.73.66.122
Yep! Just the standard insanity. Looking forward to a couple days off work in any case.
From Mike on Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 07:58:31 from 24.73.33.200
Here's a good scholarly one that also includes the importance of tapering:
"MUJIKA, I., and S. PADILLA. Scientific Bases for Precompetition Tapering Strategies. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 35, No. 7, pp.
1182–1187, 2003. The taper is a progressive nonlinear reduction of the training load during a variable period of time, in an attempt
to reduce the physiological and psychological stress of daily training and optimize sports performance. The aim of the taper should be
to minimize accumulated fatigue without compromising adaptations. This is best achieved by maintaining training intensity, reducing
the training volume (up to 60–90%) and slightly reducing training frequency (no more than 20%). The optimal duration of the taper
ranges between 4 and more than 28 d. Progressive nonlinear tapers are more beneficial to performance than step tapers. Performance
usually improves by about 3% (usual range 0.5–6.0%), due to positive changes in the cardiorespiratory, metabolic, hematological,
hormonal, neuromuscular, and psychological status of the athletes."
From Mike on Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 08:01:17 from 24.73.33.200
"High training frequencies seem to be necessary to
avoid detraining and/or “loss of feel” in the highly trained
(80%). On the other hand, training-induced adaptations
can be readily maintained with very low training frequencies
in moderately trained individuals (30–50%)."
From Drew on Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:45:20 from 24.73.66.122
Thanks a lot, Mike! There goes my day off!
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