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🏃‍♂️ Daily Run Log — Progression Run (August 19, 2025)

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Build Phase3 | Week 1 | Run 1 Today’s Progression Run (August 19, 2025) marked the start of Build Phase 3 | Week 1. The weather was cooperative – 16 °C, 70% humidity, light ENE breeze – ideal for testing steady progression pacing and practicing fueling on the move. For this Progression run I followed […]

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A wide-format composite illustration of a fit middle-aged runner with salt-and-pepper beard, Shokz bone-conduction headphones, and Garmin watch on his left wrist. The runner avatar appears five times, each in a different weather vignette: sunny, breezy with clouds, heat shimmer, calm skies, and heavy rain. Vintage-textured style emphasizes endurance through varied conditions.

Weekly Recap Build Phase 2 | Week 3 – August 11 to August 17, 2025

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This week of marathon training threw everything at me-short Z2 work, tempos with strides, spicy intervals, a cadence reset, and finally, a rainy long run that tested both patience and grit. Each session carried its own lesson, and together they shaped another solid block in the build. Workouts Tempo Run with Strides – Aug 13

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Running in the Rain – August 17, 2025

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Build Phase 2 | Week 3 | Run 5 – My Road to TOWaterfront 42K And the rains came! 🌧️ I couldn’t really tell how heavy it was at first – just that steady patter that makes you wonder whether to wait it out. In the meantime, I downed a banana (which turned into a

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Zone 2 Cadence Reset – August 16, 2025

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Build Phase 2 | Week 3 | Run 4 – My Road to TOWaterfront 42K How it Began I had stomach distress through the night into the wee hours, so I decided to keep this one short and easy. Other than a couple of SaltStick tabs and swigs of Nuun, I ran fasted. By the

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Wide, vintage comic‑style illustration of a middle‑aged Black runner wearing a blue tank, black 7‑inch shorts, blue/gray cap, Shokz Open Move headphones, Garmin on the left wrist, and blue Altra Experience Flows, sprinting across the frame. Behind him, a TrainingPeaks‑style blue interval bar strip spans the width, with a faint Maurten Mix 160 + Gel 160 fuel‑timing line graph layered behind the bars.

Spicy Intervals in the Cool Morning Air – August 15, 2025

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Build Phase 2 | Week 3 | Run 3 — My Road to TOWaterfront 42K Introduction Today’s Build Phase 2 | Week 3 | Run 3 had a bit of everything: cool morning air, an alternating 2-min-on / 1-min-off speed set, and just enough spice in the legs for a final push. Coming in with

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Motivation vs Muscle: Why You Might Not Be as Tired as You Think

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What if the biggest limiter on your next run isn’t your legs, your lungs, or your lactate-but your mind? Two dominant models attempt to explain what makes endurance athletes stop: These ideas aren’t just academic-they show up on every long run, every race, and even in training. The Central Governor Theory (CGT): Developed in the

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Tempo Run with Strides – August 13, 2025

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Build Phase 2 | Week 3 | Run 2 — My Road to TOWaterfront 42K Introduction Another day, another heat warning. But instead of letting the forecast dictate my run, I started early and managed to sidestep the worst of the swelter. Today’s plan was a tempo run with strides, a structured mix of smooth

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Shiny Zone 2 Shorty – August 12, 2025

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Build Phase 2 | Week 3 | Run 1 — My Road to TOWaterfront 42K Introduction Coach calls these volume cutback weeks “Active Recovery.” I call them the weeks when you can almost feel the gains happening – like those timelapse videos of seedlings bursting through the soil and flowering skywards. This morning’s short Zone

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Weekly Recap Build Phase 2 | Week 2 – August 4 to August 10, 2025

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Another week logged on the road to my first marathon, the Toronto Waterfront Marathon 2025, and this one felt like a lesson in patience, persistence, and adaptability. With temperatures stubbornly high and the dew point hanging over every session, I leaned on cadence work, nutrition tweaks, and some mental grit to carry me through. Workouts

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Supposedly Easy Zone 2 Run – August 10, 2025

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Build Phase 2 | Week 2 | Run 5 — My Road to TOWaterfront 42K I went into today’s long Zone 2 run expecting “easy.” That was the plan. Instead, it turned into a grind with plenty of walking – more than I’d like to admit. By the halfway mark, I knew I’d fall short

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