Aug
30

The search for ideal long run fuels continues: polenta and chocolate chip cookies

Ernesto on August 30th, 2009

Before today’s 20-mile run, I fueled up with three large slabs of polenta, pan fried in olive oil and slathered with pizza sauce. It turned out to be one of the best pre-long-run choices I’ve ever made in terms of easy-digestibility and sustained energy.
The polenta was a leftover from last night’s dinner, and I needed [...]

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Jun
24

Visualization, finding the flow unlocks unexpected reservoirs of speed, endurance

Ernesto on June 24th, 2009

Had a really cool experience during one of the 800 meter intervals in tonight’s track workout with the New Hampshire Athletic Alliance.  The workout was two 400 meter intervals, four 800 meter intervals, and two 400 meter intervals (with a mile and a half warmup and a mile and half cooldown run). I’d been hitting [...]

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