You are probably trying to get over the excitement of my last blog when I shared my high school running career with you.(sarcasm 🙂 ) It consisted of three meets. However in one of those meets I set the mile record for the Clinton Rocket track team and became the Pheasant Conference Mile Champion while doing it. As my running career was just taking off the school cut the track program my senior year. That was both good news and bad news. The good…..
The other day I received a message from a friend who was preparing to run a 10K(6 miles) and she wanted some advise about training for such a race. I had been a runner for 40 years until a knee problem turned me into a walking golfer and I also had been a cross country coach for 13 years. So I guess she thought I should have some knowledge about training distance runners. That request got me thinking about the very beginning of my…..