Olympian Molly Huddle takes you inside her training partner’s workouts, meals, exercises, mental practices, and dogs.
It’s the next realistic step to put herself in the mix for a record, medal, or win at the Chicago Marathon, but at the end of the day a shiny personal best would be great too. This will be only her third marathon, so the experience is compounding each time, and the best is soon to come. “Soon” is likely “now,” but she’s learned of the other variables apart from fitness that play into a peak marathon race. Most we can control, but some are down to luck.
“Shane got me Legos,” she laughs, noting they are a fun and meditative free-time activity. He may have been tapping into his counseling knowledge base with that gift idea, although who doesn’t love Legos?An evening jog of 4 miles, around 7:00-per-mile pace, along a soft, flat surface in Providence.curled up with her dogs, a golden retriever named Desmond and a three-legged fluffy white Samoyed mix named Tori. This kind of mental rest is as important as the physical taper.
“It’s okay to go all in on something,” I remember telling her. “Well-rounded is great, but ‘pointy’ is a cool extreme too.” I meant that there’s a short time in life when you can try to be great at something. Many people never even get a chance.
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