Sprinting
The sprints include the following track events: 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 4 x 100 meter relay and the 4 x 400 metre relay. Although the sprints are events in themselves, the ability to sprint is an important weapon in an athle...

Wow, trips over but we've just entered the halfway mark in the last push of the race calendar before the big month off from running. Now comes the hard part. I've got a 50 miler next weekend that I decided it would be a good idea to do the week after...

 

I'm considering trying to drive like a Jordanian for a few days when I get home. I'm kind of wondering how many fingers I would get. They aren't bad drivers but they drive very different than in the US. The best way to merge into traffic is ju...

Friday March 27th - Jim Estes promised me mud. For a few days I had faith and believed him but my hopes and dreams were crushed today at the course preview. No mud, and what little there had been they were covering it with rock and dirt and rolling i...

 

Thursday March 26th - Well no Govornator last night, just Antonio Banderas. What a day. 4am prayer, practice, roman ruins, downtown, mosques, taken by a cabbie, cabbie redeemed, now here. Here I am. Typing my day. Lets do it backwards. Not an ...

 

Wednesday March 25th - Spa day! Much needed too. Trip to the Dead Sea today after practice. Dude, I float. I've never floated, I sink like a rock usually. It was awesome, well novel anyway. And the mud there is heavenly. Greatest mud pit I've ...

Jordan Tuesday March 24th - So we're here, in Amman, Jordan. As it happens, Jordan is almost halfway around the world and takes a long time to get to. Who would've thought? For me it was about 25hrs of travel. Really not that bad overall, everything on...

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I seem to be at a crossroads in my running as of late.  It’s that awkward period after you put forth a huge effort to maximize your potential and nothing is the same as it was before. I’ve tried to put last year behind me, my failure (...