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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...

2,000 Year-to-Date Milestone

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12:07 am, August 9th, 2021 | Eau Claire, WI  State - South - Fairfax - McElroy - Lamont - London - Harding - Barstow - Grand  Everything collides. This run came together to round off the 31st Week of 2021; hitting 2,000 miles logged in the year. When I started running again in March of 2020, in the back of my mind I had the goal of running  2,000 miles in a year.  Why? Honestly? There's a photograph of Steve Prefontaine in high school wearing a "Pirates 2,000 Mile Club" t-shirt during a training run. I instantly thought, "That's cool! I want to be in that club!" I attempted it once back in 2018 and was right on track to get it, 1,826 miles is what I wrote on my training white board and 1,826 miles is where it stayed.  I was diagnosed with Lyme disease and all running came to a halt.  This last March I reached that goal (March 25th 2020 - March 16th 2021) and celebrated by running a marathon distance up and around Lake Namekagon in the Chequamegon ...