How to eat a Gel

It sounds so simple, but eating a Gel in a race is important to get right, and that little bit of carbohydrate can be the difference between a good race and bonking - http://fellrnr.info/How-to-eat-a-Gel

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Motivation

I was asked recently about how I avoid procrastination, which is really a question of motivation. This is my first pass at an answer, though it's a subject I will have to return to for further updates. Please forgive the roughness of this; normally I spend many days (sometimes weeks) revisiting draft entries to wordsmith them, but I wanted to get this answer out.

http://fellrnr.info/Motivation

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Documentation is Evil

As a writer, I like writing. It's easy to get caught up with the prose, and write more than is needed. I try to work on the basis that 'documentation is evil' - http://fellrnr.info/Documentation-Is-Evil If I use too many words, please remind me of these words ;}-

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Don't pause your watch

I wrote this tip in response to both my own experience when training for marathons, and what I see other runners doing. A 20 mile run with significant breaks does not prepare you for a marathon in the way that a continuous run does. Short breaks allow the body to bounce back remarkably quickly, but they have to be accounted for. http://fellrnr.info/Don%E2%80%99t-pause-your-watch

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Derby 50K Race Report

Theoden asked me to do a race report for the Derby 50K, which he kindly posted on his blog. If you are not a regular reader of his blog, the article is at http://obsruntheoden.blogspot.com/2009/12/he-kept-pain-at-bay-took-2nd-in-50k.html. Theoden's blog is well worth reading on a regular basis, and his Facebook questions (and the debate they spark) are wonderful.

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Blister Prevention

My friend Kelly asked me for some advice about blister prevention, so I wrote up my answer as a running tip, in case there were others who were interested. Having non-HS RDEB, I have rather more experience with blisters than I would like. However, if I can avoid blisters, you should be able to! http://fellrnr.info/Blister-Prevention

The blog is back...

This blog is back online after a three week outage. The problem was caused by Google automatic detection of ‘spam blogs’. I understand the issue of spam, and that the nature of automatic detection is error prone. However, a three week delay in restoring access is rather excessive. If you use the Google blogging service, you might want to consider migrating to a different provider. At the very least, take an export of your blog so you can move it or access the data while blocked.

I am going to repurpose this blog as a result of the outage. Instead of posting running tips to this blog directly, I will post them to http://fellrnr.info. I will post a link to the new articles into this blog, as well as http://fellrnr.tumblr.com and to Facebook.