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ABC Racing Choose your battles

I have a 65km ultra trail race in 12 months. When should I start training for it? What races should I do in the lead up to it? It seems overwhelmingly far away. Please help!
Elsabe

In coach SEAN TAIT’s How and Why series, the founder and running technique coach at Off the Mark responds to your run-related challenges.

The key word here is ‘overwhelming’. It is overwhelming because this challenge is being viewed in its entirety. In life we deal much better with breaking complex tasks up

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