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    Mastery Mindset & Running
    Daniel Connolly
    • Nov 6, 2021
    • 2 min

    Mastery Mindset & Running

    Mastery is a mindset and also a path - Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness Can you truly master running? Can you master your career? Your life?...
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    GB Trials and Home International: dealing with the cards dealt and lessons learnt
    Daniel Connolly
    • Sep 22, 2021
    • 3 min

    GB Trials and Home International: dealing with the cards dealt and lessons learnt

    It’s Sunday 19th September. It’s a date marked in the diary as ‘A Race’. It’s a race to go ‘all in with’ and to perform to the very best...
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    Shoot your shot and enjoy the process
    Daniel Connolly
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 2 min

    Shoot your shot and enjoy the process

    Training and racing to your highest potential is so much more than moving your body. Holistically, it’s your entire lifestyle, your...
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    Principles not Formulas
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jun 29, 2021
    • 2 min

    Principles not Formulas

    There's no magic workout or perfect plan to improving as a runner and as an athlete. There’s consistency, adaptability and a process....
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    Tapering and Trusting the Process
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jun 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    Tapering and Trusting the Process

    Tapering. Peaking. Absorbing chronic training load to optimise race day competitiveness for peak performance. Getting fit is the easy...
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    Running Free
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jun 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    Running Free

    Freedom. A word associated with why many runners choose to run on trails and head to the hills. Running is escapism and novels such as...
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    The ‘Trial of Miles’ and Individual Needs
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jun 11, 2021
    • 4 min

    The ‘Trial of Miles’ and Individual Needs

    The ‘trial of miles’: a term coined by fictional elite college runner, Quenton Cassidy in John L. Parker’s novel Once a Runner. In this...
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    Strength and Conditioning for Trail, Fell and Mountain Running
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jun 5, 2021
    • 8 min

    Strength and Conditioning for Trail, Fell and Mountain Running

    Fell running has common characteristics with cross country, orienteering, trail and mountain running and generally has steep gradients,...
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    Running by Feel
    Daniel Connolly
    • Mar 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    Running by Feel

    Lydiard, in his training principles, emphasised response regulated adaption which means that any training programme should not be...
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    Marathon Training and Fell Running
    Daniel Connolly
    • Feb 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    Marathon Training and Fell Running

    The Marathon is unquestionably the most prestigious event in distance running. It is the highlight endurance event in the Olympics and,...
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    Running Psychology and the Modern World
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jul 30, 2020
    • 5 min

    Running Psychology and the Modern World

    Today there is a huge emphasis on the physiological and biomechanical aspects of training for running and endurance sport as a...
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    Percy Cerruty and Trail Running
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jul 20, 2020
    • 5 min

    Percy Cerruty and Trail Running

    Trail running by nature should be exploratory and not overly prescriptive. Trail runners are typically more motivated by life meaning and...
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    Lydiard Training and Fell Running
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 6 min

    Lydiard Training and Fell Running

    Arthur Lydiard pioneered the importance of aerobic training to maximise endurance performance and all contemporary training philosophies...
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    Running through Covid-19: Process not outcome
    Daniel Connolly
    • Jun 17, 2020
    • 5 min

    Running through Covid-19: Process not outcome

    Coronavirus. Covid-19. Global Pandemic. The global situation means that for many athletes, their 2020 goals have been scuppered. Be them...
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