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I love watching an athlete break through to a new level.
Whenever I watch an athlete have a big jump in performance, I think back to my most transformative years in the sport. It’s amazing how that new level of performance can look shocking, almost magical to the outside. Even more interestingly, if you observe the athlete in the year or two leading to that moment, you sometimes see what looks like no steps at all, or even steps backward.
No matter what you need to improve in your running life,
My Early Pro Struggles
In 2009, my second year out of college, I was injured much of the year. I had run a slew of PRs during a very fun first summer on the European “minor league” track circuit after I graduated in 2007, as well as a few PRs in early 2008 despite having a rough late summer season. But in 2009, instead of avenging my terrible Olympic Trials showing as I had planned, I fought a soleus and Achilles problem that continued on and off for months. On paper, about 80 perc