americanspeedeventuallynearedpeakrecordsforcedworkeverharderdroplesstimethesetrialscamefeellikeraceswhichfunrunsporadicallydaily
Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.
Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.
Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
They trained mostly by time periods, checking their pace for known distance only on special occasions.
A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.