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Race Report: Pacific Association Golden Gate Park Cross-Country Open
The Pacific Association races are hard to explain to people. No one knows about them and they’re insanely stupid painfully fast. The Pacific Association is just the regional section that covers...
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The One Thing I Thought Over and Over During Today’s Cross-Country Race
“My legs do not feel good. I’ve been racing too much. I shouldn’t have done this. I should take a nap. Maybe I should take a nap right now. God, my legs do not feel good.”Filed under: Race Reports...
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Training Week: Oct. 14-20
Part of the whole the last two weeks sucking hard thing is that I’m only just getting around to some things (like this). You remember in college how you’d work really hard for a few weeks and then the...
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The Making of Champions
The pennant. Yesterday, my high school boys won the conference championship race. It was very exciting and I yelled a bunch at them during the race, things like “you need to pass him” and “come up,...
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My high school boys, who I assistant coach, took second at cross-country...
And too there were questions: What did he eat? Did he believe in isometrics? Isotonics? Ice and heat? How about aerobics, est, ESP, STP? What did he have to say about yoga, yogurt, Yogi Berra? What was...
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Not Even Showing Up to the Start Line
Yesterday, I was supposed to run the Pacific Association cross-country championship race in Golden Gate Park. And, by “supposed to” I mean that I hadn’t exactly signed up yet, just that it was on my...
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Because Sometimes You Just Have to Race Some Olympians
Or, maybe, more accurately, be generally in the same vicinity as Olympians. Because, to be clear, I think 238 people beat me at the National Cross Country Club Championships who weren’t Olympians. And...
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Race Report: Pacific Association Golden Gate Park Cross-Country Open
The Pacific Association races are hard to explain to people. No one knows about them and they’re insanely stupid painfully fast. The Pacific Association is just the regional section that covers...
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