The updated racewalk grand prix standings are attached. There is only one race left in this year's series, the one hour to be held on October 17. That "new...
Hi Bill! It's good to hear you! I hope your vacation was good and it's great to hear that you and Joanne are back in training and may join the Saturday group....
Bill and Mari, I cannot open the attachments both of you have kindly included in your posts. I can't "left click" at all and when I "right click," I don't get...
David, In a nutshell, we are a group of racewalkers who come mostly from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island (do we have members from Vermont??) --...
Hey out there? I am training for the Portland, Oregon marathon in Oct. and just completed a 16 miler yesterday and was suffering with some upper hamstring...
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Aug 2, 2004 7:52 pm
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Joanne H. will be away visiting family next Sunday so I could use a volunteer or two to help me at Danehy. Easy stuff, handing out water, watching for...
thank you charles ... From: c_mansbach@... To: newalkers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [N.E.W.] help! I most likely...
Dear Tom, Obviously, this is an overuse strain, and the best solution is rest. That being said, I have this problem sometimes, including now, because I do a...
Tom Thanks for the info on the stretching and ham strengthening. I have already been doing some stretches at work today. As for the rest, what is rest to a...
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Aug 3, 2004 10:09 pm
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Bill, I'll be happy to help. Is the race at 10am or at 9:30am? Heidi...
Dear Tom, Altho. I have not read the McGovern system, many people feel it is very good. In my heyday (hayday?), I used a Lydiard system which alternated long...
rest? oh yes, that funny word not included in an athletes vocabulary. after strugling with IT band and piriformis injury for too many months. A viral ear...
Hi, I'm a newbie to this group. I've been an on-and-off fitness walker and am now preparing for the Jimmy Fund Marathon Walk in September. While I haven't...
Tom K. Thanks for the insight. I am a 55 year old ex-college hurdler, ex-marathoner with 8 too many leg surgeries, so running has been out of the equation. I...
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Aug 4, 2004 4:15 pm
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Beth the newbie Thanks for the note. I have been reading his book for the past year or so and was interested in what people thought of his training regiment. I...
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Aug 4, 2004 9:42 pm
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Dear Tom, Since I note that your name is not Tim Seaman, Kevin Eastler, John Nunn, Phil Dunn, Curt Clausen, or Theresa Vaill (congratulations to our Olympic...
What do I think of Dave's book? Can I answer that question in 2 months? I'm walking my first marathon then, so we'll see how I do! Seriously, he is obviously...
Beth. I believe it works, I used his book and it helped me make through a marathon last May. tr...
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Aug 4, 2004 10:50 pm
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Tom K. Thanks again for the insight and coaching information. It makes common sense to lengthen the distance and slow the tempo. Sometimes if get stuck in a...
Tom_Ries@...
Aug 4, 2004 10:57 pm
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Pardon me for buttin' in, but my experience is that walking a marathon is much easier than running one. I have run sevaral marathons under 3 hrs, but it took...
With Danehy coming up on Sunday and a number of people away enjoying the lovely summer weather, we will not be doing the Charles River walk this week. Hope to...
Mari Ryan
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Aug 5, 2004 9:29 pm
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Race at 10. Glad you can help. Thanks. Bill ... From: Bill Duskey To: newalkers@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:35 PM Subject: [N.E.W.]...
As a too-often injured racewalker/ex-runner, my advice on preparing to walk or run a marathon is to forget the speedwork and do distance, distance, distance....
you folks are amazing. i'm still working on keeping my legs straight..long time runner, pedal endlessly at high tension on my recumbent exercycle, so i'm very...
runner1941@...
Aug 6, 2004 4:06 am
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I'll let you in on a little secret. The really fast walkers do not hyperextend their legs. They keep them just straight enough to pass judgement, and their...
All this talk about interval training reminds me of an article on the EDGE site that discusses interval training from the perspective of a superconsciousness...
Thanks for all the info on marathon racewalking. I have a plan, but when I am out there by myself on the lonely road some of that negative self-talk creeps...
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Aug 6, 2004 2:19 pm
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Hi All-Well, I had been back in training for the last month(after a plantar fascia injury in March) I was doing well--taking things slowly and coming along...
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