by Cary | Jan 27, 2019 | Cary's Rants, Training
I eat plenty of vegetables & fruits. Or so I thought. When my CrossFit gym here decided to do the 800-gram challenge, I thought it would be a piece of (carrot?) cake. The 800-gram challenge is one of those things like the Whole30, Sugar Detox, etc. Yes, it is a...
by Cary | Jan 20, 2019 | Training
I think I have asked this question before, but let’s not dwell on that. I’d like to point out that as a coach I am extremely sensitive to any sign of overtraining in my athletes. I build in rest and recovery. Because it is during that rest and recovery that our bodies...
by Cary | May 26, 2018 | Training, Travels
I spent the week of May 14th in Colorado Springs (at the Olympic Training Center!!) for the USAT Paratriathlon Coaching Certification Clinic. It was an amazing week. I love coaching – for my coaching brain, every athlete is a unique puzzle to figure out – but pursuing...
by Cary | Mar 9, 2018 | Cary's Rants, Training
Not a fast runner. Or a long-distance runner. But still a runner. I started running about a year before I started business school. That was 20 years ago. Holy moly, 20 years ago?! It wasn’t love at first run, far from it. I was a smoker, I worked a lot, I partied a...
by Cary | Mar 4, 2018 | Training
If you have been following my return to running, you have heard me talk about improving my cadence. You may have wondered why I care so much about this number. In a perfect world, we would all diligently start each run with a nice long warm up followed by 15 minutes...
by Cary | Dec 17, 2017 | Training
While it has personally been a terrific year for the snow to hold off, I’m ready. Puck and I spent the weekend in Fraser to check on the house and to shovel the 2 or 3 inches of recent snow. But in the woods there was enough accumulated to snowshoe. Oh boy, did we...
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