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Mainer 🦞 | Boilermaker 🚂 | Assistant Coach for @mckirdytrained HP 🌲 | Personal Running Coach 🏃‍♂️
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Another step back so I can get into more of this!

Two years ago I fell during a race and honestly haven’t been quite the same since. It’s been one thing after another, specifically in my hip/pelvis region. I’d get maybe two months of healthy running before something else would flare up. Two weeks before Grandma’s Half I could hardly walk and wasn’t even sure I’d make it to the start line.

Fast forward to now, I started feeling similar discomfort and decided to get my pelvic floor checked out. Turns out my SI and coccyx were pretty tilted and likely had been for a while. Now that we’re working on correcting things, it’s a bit of a gets worse before it gets better situation. Basically a baby deer learning to walk again 😂

Right now the focus is getting strong and stable so I can finally feel like myself again. Super bummed, but really thankful to have a team in my corner helping me get to the other side of this! #mckirdytrained #raleighrunner #mckirdytrainedeast

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I’m trying to work out a slight last-minute hamstring pull ahead of this weekend’s Virginia Trail Festival 100 Miler, but in the meantime I’m getting Brutus the Adventure Jeep and the yet-to-be-named square-drop (any name suggestions?) ready for the long journey and week+ camping trip!

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It had been 18 months since @adelesetl last ran a marathon. We spent a lot of time training and racing other distances, anywhere from 3km cross country events to half marathons.

But the marathon bug always comes back to us and at 51, Adele had a mission to win the Longford Marathon - a plan we set into place in February earlier this year.

We trained over hills and through the rain. We trained through the wind and the hot summer days. We prepared as well as we could to be as strong as possible... and I couldn't have asked for a better segment.

Adele finished the race in an astonishing 2:56:15! A time nearly equal to what she ran 18 months prior (2:56:09). She navigated the rolling hills and demonstrated the perfect combination of patience and risk management.

Here's what makes this story even better. Adele debuted at this marathon in 2002. Her time was 4:01:30 back then!

Well done Adele!!

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Just me, the downstep queen 👑🙃🙃 #mckirdytrained #raleighroadrunners #photogenic

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We’re headed back to the @nycmarathon!

Julia Paternain looks to make a wave at this year’s race. This will be her 4th marathon but her first effort at the NYC event. Meanwhile, Kamohelo Mofolo will be celebrating his 21st birthday with a jaunt around the city in what will be his second marathon!

We have Coach @dmont330 running his 24th straight NYC marathon - and a host of athletes aiming to find their best on Nov 1st.

Keep your eyes pealed for the McKirdy Shakeout announcements for this race and for the rest of 2026! Will we see you in New York?

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The team welcomes you to Raleigh for the 13th @sirwaltermiler!

Come join the fun tonight at @meredithcollege and later at @raleighbrewing

Thank you for supporting Sir Walter year after year!

https://sirwaltermiler.com/

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Just a girl trying to survive the swamp 😬
#summertraining #mckirdytrained #runnersofraleigh

📸: @runmattrun11

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Yep… I’m looking at you!

Let’s have a serious chat on your recovery pace… because frankly, “I’m not sure it means what you think it means” (another Princess Bride quote…)

One of the aspects of fitness we look at in your training is your recovery pace. How you manage recovery pace can tell us so much about how you felt in the session.

Running marathon effort and you can manage 45-60s per mile slower than “marathon pace” and still taking nutrition? FANTASTIC! That’s a good sign you’re where you want to be.

Finding that you need to slow down 75s per mile (or slower) just so you can say you hit marathon pace? Well either the weather is getting to you, you’re sick, or maybe you just aren’t as fit as you thought. Either way you slice it, we gotta make some adjustments.

Maybe you can handle 10 x 3 min at “5km pace” with a 90s quick jog… Well I have news for you, I bet you are likely MUCH FASTER than you think!

We all want to see the paces look good… but it’s the relationship of the effort and the recovery that truly show us where your fitness is.

When you are just paying attention to the flashy splits, that can blind you to what’s really happening. Focus on the right targets.

#mckirdytrained #training #coaching #development

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The results are not guaranteed, they are earned.

Since 2001, I’ve been coaching in some way or another. From volunteering at my high school to where we are today the past 25 years of my life has been dedicated to helping athletes find the very best of themselves.

There’s been wonderful highlights and hard lows to go with those years, but of the many things I have learned in 2.5 decades of coaching is that the success you want isn’t guaranteed.

Rather, it IS found at the end of trying.

If you aren’t willing to risk a little bit of failure, then you’re probably not going to achieve anything close to your potential. I don’t care what age you are… I truly believe this.

I’m not saying that you need to be dangerous in your risk. I believe in focused training with a developmental mindset. But don’t you dare for a second think that just because you hit your paces in sessions that it’s gonna come easy to you on race day.

#mckirdytrained #coaching

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It’s Always a good time 😉

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If you’ve run a marathon then chances are you know exactly what this feels like.

In one glorious moment you’re crossing the finishing line in pure joy. You crushed 26.2 miles and your legs carried you to places you never thought possible.

A day later you need handrails just to sit on a toilet. People are looking at you in the grocery store with pity in their eyes. You’re late for your flight and there is no way on God’s green earth you’re making it the 200 meter jog before the doors shut and you’re stranded.

You’ve earned the right for those middle of the night cramps that creep into your dreams and wake you up in a feverish nightmare. The sound emanating out of you is something not quite a scream but not quite a moan either. It sits in the back of your throat but somehow the noise you are making is coming out of your nose.

It’s worth it. It always has been and always will be.

As Westley from the “Princess Bride” most famously said … “To the pain!”

Here’s to the pain… I mean the marathon. And to all those who’ve turned 102 years old in a blink of an eye.

#mckirdytrained #soreness #marathon

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First time Home buyers alert!!!! Kiddos are all grown up🤩. Cheers!🥂

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