Rest and Nutrition are Your First Workouts

People are constantly displaying the symptoms of "food is mood."  When you try to work out for any extended period of time and don't feed the body right, your mind actually tries to sabotage your efforts.  It makes you depressed and moody, and it does this on purpose, because it's trying to stop you from doing what it already knows you can't do - perform well on less than ideal nutrition.

You have to eat, drink, and sleep well first, then exercise.  Treat nutrition and rest as your primary workout, because everything else feeds off of that energy supply.  Until you do that, you are constantly cutting off your own potential at the knees.

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The Easiest Way to Keep Getting Faster

Have a few "indicator" tests spread out over the week where you measure speed over the same exact distance (uphill climbs are good for this).  Once you can't beat your last time, any more work you do is not helpful.  Go very easy or don't train at all until you're more rested and feel like you're ready to attack and beat the challenge again.   Plan your mileage and easy/hard workouts around that schedule and you'll always improve.

How to Make Your Own Energy Bars

Dates and nuts! Just squeeze them together and have fun with it. Enjoy!

On Speedwork

You can't get faster unless you train harder.

You can't train harder unless you "create space" to do so.

You can't create space unless you rest.

To go harder, go easier until it's time to do your speedwork.  You get better quality out of it.