Do gooders,
Younghippocrates.com isn’t about Young Austin, let me establish that now.
If you see my introduction written a few weeks ago, this site will definitely track the experimentation related to my own larger running goals, however, more than I am hoping it can develop into a record of simple and practical ideas the sub-elite athlete can use to better integrate work, running, and life to get the most out of performance. Considering that Younghippocrates.com is currently speaking to an audience and testing pool of one (myself), and may very well always be this way, I’m at going to at least make this the best online diary I can so I simply don’t forget my thoughts and research on the process!
A week out of the Valencia Marathon, however, I find myself in the ecstatic but awkward position of having just run 2:18:05, accomplishing one of my ultimate goals of qualifying for the 2020 Olympic trials, and as a result, not knowing how to proceed from an existential running perspective…oops. It’s not exactly dramatic, but I do need to think about how this site moves forward in a cohesive way! I intend for the direction to remain substantially the same, but for now, it’s going to be a recap of things I did leading up to Valencia so I can attempt to replicate them in the future. To the extent I solve my happy existential running crisis, I will continue with the site as planned and on the build up to 2020! For now, I’m taking my ritualistic 2-week running break.
Happy experimenting!
Do good,
Young Austin