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Helen Palmer - Trening pause!

Trening pause!

In the past I often havent bothered to take much of a break from training at the end of the season. In fact last year I used the downtime to start experimenting with interval blocks!! At some point during the season I read a blog post called takin breaks by…
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American 5000 m runner Lauren Fleshman (an athlete that I really admire, not only her running, PB of 14:58:48 but seemingly balanced approach to life and sport). Laurens analogy of cashing in on the cumulative effect of training year on year while letting some of the top-end fitness (small change) fall away made a lot of sense. And what she said about setting yourself up for a couple really big highs, sandwiched between some bad lows (injuries, illness, mental burnout) reminded me of last Winter and Spring.I havent had a great season but when I think about the condition I…

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