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Wednesday Jun 18, 2014
Wednesday Jun 18, 2014
Lisa Rainsberger has the dubious honor of being the runner who came the closest to going to the Olympics without actually making the team.
In a competitive athletic career that lasted over 20 years, Lisa qualified for and competed at 5 Olympic Trials events, once in swimming and four times in the marathon. She finished 4th in 1984, 1988, and 1992.
Lisa is the last American woman to win the Boston Marathon and was a 2-time winn er of the Chicago Marathon.
Some of the insights Lisa reveled in our conversation were:
- The importance of sticking to the pace that you have trained for regardless of how fast others in the race are running
- Her use of a 9-day training cycle to spread out hard workouts and add more recovery
- The importance of strength training and cross training in addition to running volume to improve performance
- Lisa’s coaching and her conservative, goal-oriented approach
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