Stories
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Harsh Reality Is A Gift (a 6 month progress report)
Coach Dunte trained and kept records for 6 months, hoping to lose fat and run faster. Here’s how the work and the progress went from January to July.
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Physical Therapist As Conditioning Coach
Getting hurt in training is unacceptable. But if you get hurt, you have to rehab just as seriously as you practice…because they are the same!
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Hurdles Are Hard (a meet report)
Hurdles are hard. I mean, more specifically, that competition hurdles are heavy and that the crossbars are stiff, so it really hurts when you hit them. I was reminded of that when I injured my foot by kicking a hurdle while demonstrating drills to the middle school team two months ago. Then I was reminded…
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The Necessary Evil of Ego In Sports
I’m terrified of my own sport. Every starting line, every meet, every registration, and every training session involving the sprint hurdles fills me with anxiety. Just thinking about hurdling fills me with a strange cocktail of dread, anxiousness, and…excitement. The way I know that I have to hurdle is that I have never stopped thinking…
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All of My Training Ideas Are Stolen
I went from getting kicked out of the college Rec to a professional coach – thank goodness for my mentors along the way.