David Jaewon Oh
Renee Metivier Baillie knew the workout would be be difficult. This was her first 20-mile run, and it was supposed to include 5 miles at marathon pace and 3 miles at half marathon pace.
“The temperature rose into the 90s, and I knew that was going to make a tough day even tougher,” she says. After the 5 miles at marathon pace, Metivier Baillie was sitting on the ground, exhausted, facing the question all runners do when it’s not their day: Should she suck it up and keep going, change the workout or just call it a day?
In a “no pain, no gain” world, that can be a difficult question. But getting the answer right is key to training successfully, says Pete Pfitzinger, an exercise physiologist and Olympic marathoner. “There’s a fine line between pushing hard to succeed and setting yourself back,” he says.
HOKA NAZ Elite adds Jenna Wrieden as an assistant coach
Press Release
January 12, 2021. Published January 13, 2021
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – HOKA NAZ Elite announced that it has added Jenna Wrieden to its coaching staff. Wrieden is coming off a four-and-a-half year run as an assistant coach at the University of Louisville where she worked with multiple NCAA All Americans including 2017 National steeplechase champion Edwin Kibichiy, and 2018 10,000 meter runner-up Dorcas Wasike. Wrieden will serve as a full-time assistant coach for HOKA NAZ Elite, alongside head coach Ben Rosario.
NAZ Elite, who last year announced a new, multi-year agreement with its title sponsor, HOKA ONE ONE®, a division of Deckers Brands (NYSE: DECK), launched its search for an assistant coach last year and the hiring process took more than three months to complete. Rosario said that Wrieden beat out an amazing group of candidates.
Six Final Thoughts About The Marathon Project: 2:09 Isn’t 2:09 Anymore, Des Linden Says America Needs to Join the 2:19 Party, & More
December 22, 2020
The Marathon Project is in the books, and with it, the 2020 racing season. It was an event American marathoners (and marathon fans) were desperate for after a year rocked by COVID-19, and it was a staggering success. Nothing can replicate the energy, importance, and emotions of the Olympic Marathon Trials held earlier this year, but this was the closest an American event has come to those feelings since that blustery day in Atlanta 10 months ago. London, Valencia, and the World Half were great, but they were also held in the middle of the night in the United States and featured barely any Americans. Watching on Sunday morning, it felt like the largest gathering of US distance fans since the Trials even if most of that gathering took place on Twitter or the LetsRun messageboards, rather than the barren streets of Chandler, Ariz.
RRW: The Marathon Project Delivers Fast Times, Great Racing
By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2020 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved
(20-Dec) In this pandemic year marked by so much pain, struggle and loss, The Marathon Project today in Chandler, Ariz., provided a much-needed high note before 2020 passes into infamy, at least for fans of distance running. Today’s elite-only race –bootstrapped by Josh Cox, Ben Rosario and Matt Helbig– ended up being one of the best-ever marathons on U.S. soil for North American athletes, punctuated by exciting victories for Sara Hall (2:20:32) and Martin Hehir (2:08:59). Depth was impressive for a mostly domestic race, with 12 women going sub-2:30 and 13 men going sub-2:12 (seven sub-2:10).