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Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:10

By Mark Allen (xtri.com)

There is one thing I did every season before I even logged one second of training. I set my goals for the year. That started by first figuring out which were going to be my top key races and where they were in the race calendar. If I could I filled in the secondary events I would go to, but these were not the ones that would drive the overriding...

structure of my training cycles. Knowing where I would need to be in my peak shape started to draw all my actions in training toward those goals. These were the magnets, the reminders of where and when I had to be at my best. But determining these key events was the mechanical part of setting goals, the easy element to put down.

The next step was look at each of those key events and come up with a few levels of what I was hoping to accomplish at them. Why was I going to put thousands of hours and even more thousands of miles on my body day after day? What was my focus going to be during what often felt like endless months of preparation for only a very small handful of days? READ MORE