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Change & Balance 🍃 | 2,000 YTD

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Change is in the air and since the move up north, I haven’t fully gotten into my weekly rhythms. I’m giving myself patience, but as running is such a central part of my life and knowing just how important it is to embrace change as it unfolds, I’ve decided now is a good time to take a new approach to my training and weekly running goals For the last 4 years, I’ve run an average of 6 times a week with 1 day of rest. I’ve run a pretty consistent 50-70 miles per week during that stretch, with at least one long run + on-&-off quality days. With this structure, I still took a “run-by-feel” perspective, that allowed me to adapt easily based on how the body felt. I never really felt like I was overtraining, because so much emphasis came back to how the body felt, how I recovered and how much enjoyment I got out of the process.   All this makes entirely too much sense based on how much I ding dang love running. It’s one of the purest states of consciousness that I can consistently acce...
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Week 1 - New Beginnings

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Today marks the first week since moving up north to my family’s cabin with my partner Avery and her puppy Josie. My parents moved up here from our house in Eau Claire during the first few months of the pandemic in 2020 - that was also subsequently the last time I found myself up here for a long period of time, waiting out the first few months of Wisconsin’s statewide lockdown.   Do you ever stop and think about how you end up exactly where you are?   A year after I was born, in the spring of 1990, my dad at age 29, would become enamored with building a cabin up in the Chequamegon National Forest. There, on a bit of land his Grandpa had owned along the south western shoreline of East Twin Lake, a lake who’s geology was formed when glaciers began melting away from North America, 19,000 years ago, in a spot that he and his brothers fondly referred to as, “the Meadow” would he and my mom build the foundation for what would become a home and sanctuary to my family and countless oth...
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Location: East Twin Lake, Gordon, WI 54517, USA
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Memory Lane - 4 Hour 'Run By Feel' | LSD

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Main - Hastings - Starr - North - N.Star - N.Woods - Gooder - Villa Diane - Princeton - La Salle - Grand *note - italic text was written after the initial post Run By Feel is a term that means what it says - whatever you feel, that's what you do. If your body wants to run slow? Run slow! If it want's to walk? Walk. The focus is on feeling comfortable and alert while actively moving forward. Fast, slow, it's all based on feeling. Long Slow Distance  (LSD) runs involve setting a pace you would consider "slow" and sticking to or around that pace for a long run distance, lowering your heart rate and learning endurance by building slowly. lol sorry if you clicked this link thinking there would be some groovy psychedelic use and running. Maybe later  RBF and LSD runs have become the bread and butter of this project. They cover a lot of ground, are less damage to the body by utilizing aerobic  threshold to optimize the body's input and output. They are full, immersiv...
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