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The tip of the trail is by Andy Jones Wilkins and Andy.

What's your tip?

You know, 10 or so years ago when I was starting to really get into these 100-mile-ers, my mentor

in the sport Tommy Nielsen, gave me one piece of advice that I'll never forget about

running 100-mile-ers.

And that was, you know what, you got to run the last 20 miles of a race, like there's

someone two minutes ahead of you and someone two minutes behind you.

And put all that pressure on yourself to succeed.

And when I took that advice and then tried to apply it to my training, it kind of changed

everything.

You know, I wake up in the morning, the alarm goes off, and the tendency, of course, is

to hit snooze.

But I know that those other guys out there who are going to be two minutes ahead of me and

two minutes behind me, on hitting snooze.

So I turn that alarm clock, get up, crank up the coffee, and get out to run.

I think the ultimate lesson there is, consistency is the key to longevity in the sport.

You don't want to overdo it, but you never want to be at a point where you're having to

catch up so much that you lose an entire year or even two years of what you've built

up in that huge body of work over time.

And so from that small little tidbit of two minutes ahead and two minutes behind, I basically

extrapolated my whole theory of training, which is all about consistency, periodization,

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