Hey everyone and welcome to you today's episode of the Run to the Top Extra Kit

daily podcast. I am your host, one of the coaches here at Runners

Connect, Haleyman. And I hope you guys are all doing well and I hope you and your family are staying safe

difficult times right now and that's why my podcasts for the next few episodes

it's gonna be things that will help hopefully help you guys to deal with and negotiate these

challenging times. I'm hopefully going to answer some questions that I feel you guys might have about training during this time,

training in immunity, how to stay motivated, where to direct your training.

I hope that I can help you answer some of these questions.

Of course if I don't answer the question that you want to get the answer to,

just email the question that you want me to cover to

hayley hayle y y y at runners connect net and yeah I'll do my best to help. So today I want to talk to you about the positives of having

a period of time without racing. I know these cancellations have been hard on everyone and

it's easy to just feel so frustrated like all that hard

work you've done has gone to waste.

But I'm here to let you know that A your fitness definitely won't go to waste you've always got that there

increasing your foundations on which to build for the next race you've got that

experience and strength gained from

completing that training block. It's surprising how much actually being

able to get through and complete the training block, how much of a part that is of a successful race performance.

And I would say that if you completed a marathon training block, maybe your first one, and you didn't get to race, that's still

got so much value because your next one, you're just going to be able to build on that, you'll

have the experience of the marathon training block, and that counts for so much so in that case as with you

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