micke-midlife on August 31st, 2008

the olympics went away and micke-midlife appeared on the international running scene. away with all the clinical clean and analytically cool world record performances and hello to the sweaty flesh and blood training sessions squeezed in after work and before family time.
thinking about it, what were those olympic games in beijing anyway? they’re far from [...]

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micke-midlife on August 30th, 2008

damn, in this third week of harder training - yes, I started the training a bit earlier in order to think about this experiment and whether it makes sense at all (now having committed to it and one week later, i’m not quite sure it does) - the performance goes the other way than i’d [...]

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micke-midlife on August 27th, 2008

i sure can say, i don’t like it, at least not right now, interval training… it’s the killer for all john does who
suddenly mean serious running business. it’s the stuff that separates the wheat from the chaff, the real wolf from the disguised lambs, the tough guy from the mollycoddle…
the plan said today 10 x [...]

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micke-midlife on August 25th, 2008

what a better start for a running blog to write about beer and it’s consumption in the first episode. but, think about it, this is damn important. or not? so, try to live without it for a month…
i did the 16k today always knowing that later in the evening there will be gratification, a nice [...]

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micke-midlife on August 7th, 2008

400 days is the time this running experiment is gonna last, starting from the 25.08.2008. It shouldn’t be life changing, but let’s see…

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