Tag: Sage Canaday blog

Training Week: March 24-30th, 2013 – prep for Lake Sonoma 50

Training Week: March 24-30th, 2013 – prep for Lake Sonoma 50

My quads got beat-up from the Tarawera 100km. Despite taking 5 days totally off from running after the race (on March 16, 2013) I can still feel a dull ache in them. That is to be expected though. I’ve dealt with lots of post-marathon fatigue and I’ve overtrained to the point of compromising my health […]

April 2, 2013 | By | 4 Replies More
Training Talk #4: Distance Running Principles

Training Talk #4: Distance Running Principles

As promised, I’m going to continue on with my YouTube “Training Talk” video series. In this video, I rant about 3 core principles or concepts that I’ve found over the last 15 years to have been most helpful in my distance running career.  Also, I start off by listing off some major influences that have […]

March 27, 2013 | By | 8 Replies More
Running Scared: Tarawera 100km Race Report

Running Scared: Tarawera 100km Race Report

  “Just don’t walk.” I repeated this mantra in my head over and over for the last 15 miles of the Tarawera 100k in the exotic trails of New Zealand.  But at mile 54, I started walking…on a downhill! Quads buckling, I felt dizzy and nauseous. And thirsty. Man, I was thirsty! My handheld bottle […]

March 18, 2013 | By | 31 Replies More
Training Week: Feb. 17th – Feb. 23, 2013 and Training Talk video

Training Week: Feb. 17th – Feb. 23, 2013 and Training Talk video

Here’s my latest Training Talk video on Race nutrition for marathon to 100km ultra distances: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw-DvwPPeRU[/youtube] It is quite long and I rant a bit…. you can subscribe to my YouTube channel “Vo2max Productions” for all the latest videos and Training Talk updates. Feel free to comment about topics you’d like to see in the […]

March 2, 2013 | By | 10 Replies More
Consistency In Training Is Your Biggest Asset

Consistency In Training Is Your Biggest Asset

So here’s a new blog post on training. I was motivated to post this because my girlfriend told me I didn’t write very much here. I admit, I like making videos more often but the following is a written something for in-between my Youtube “Training Talk” series of videos:   Consistency in Training is Your […]

February 26, 2013 | By | 16 Replies More