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Racing her first 10k races

After the Copenhagen Marathon, MrsDuck prepared for a race through the streets of Ystad in the South of Sweden, some...

Intro to the athlete, MrsDuck

Following on from the series of posts written about the athlete AB, I shall now introduce you to the athlete known as...

Rolling all the eggs into one basket

Now that we had achieved the summer goal of going sub 45 minutes for 10km, we needed to start turning our attention to...

Breaks, Plans and ABnating

With the running of the sub 21 minute 5km, much had been achieved in giving AB the confidence in her ability, however...

The making of the athlete AB

After the 5km time-trial, the week before, we now prepared towards the 10km which would take place on the 20th July in...

Intro to the athlete AB

The end April this year; 2013, I approached a local athlete on the island of Lanzarote (and it is with her permission...

MMS – 10k Program success

May 30, 2013 | 10k Training, Coaching, Featured, Inspiration

One of the successes of the 10k Training Programs that I would like to mention is MMS. Marcelo resides in Brazil and came onto The Training Zone forums in 2009. His first post under the title - Improving 10k with regular training was as follows: "I started running on...

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INSPIRATION

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COACHING

sub 60 minute schedule added

10k Training, Coaching, Featured

Incredibly, after being involved in road running since 1982 and performance coaching since 1984, I finally have to admit that I was a touch of an elitist, and considered that everyone should be running sub 60 minutes for 10km. At least, that should be the standard...

EVENTS

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Meetings and Greetings

by timeadmin | Apr 20, 2011 | Events

Hotel and Onwards

by timeadmin | Apr 19, 2011 | Events

The Tel Aviv Marathon Trip

by timeadmin | Apr 19, 2011 | Events

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Aug 6, 2012 | Chat

Dear Mr Bolt, whereas I so thoroughly wanted you to win and cement your status as the world's greatest sprinter, I for one have to apologise for becoming a doubter. Over the last couple of months you gave us a tremendous amount of reason to believe that you may have...

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The Competitive Spirit

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Catching the Dopers

Apr 4, 2013 | Chat, Featured, Opinion

Over the last couple of months, 2013, is proving to be a successful year in catching the dopers. The extent of the Russian 'doping scandal' becomes more evident as more and more cheaters are exposed via the retesting of samples from 2005. Before the London Olympics,...

The Hollywood Drive

Mar 21, 2013 | Featured, Inspiration, Opinion

Once in a while you come across the good salt of the earth runners, those who have a passion and love for the sport of running, and who want to share both their knowledge and enthusiasm. One such person is that 'moustached fellow' and friend, Owen Hollywood. I had the...

Manage the Athlete

Feb 19, 2013 | Featured, Opinion

Don't get into Athlete Management if you in fact don't want to Manage the Athlete .. TheEd

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A quick shoot out regarding a new blog I have created on wordpress.com under DoyleDMG. This wordpress site was developed largely due to my current involvement with some various internet developments, however it also documents a bit of my background and how...