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Race season is pretty much in full gear now, and it is fun for me to receive the many
race reports from happy athletes.  The feedback is satisfying to me on two fronts:

1.  It gratifying to have people place their trust in myself and my program for an 
endeavor and daily/weekly routine that is important to them.  To watch these same folks
execute the program, and then go out and do things they could not do before, is extremely
satisfying.  Everyone happy.

2.  The M2 program is decidely unique, particularly in the multi-sport world where volume
seems to be the primary training variable for too many folks---an approach with inherent limitations
in my opinion.  

That so many of my folks perform so well at any distance, Olympic, Ironman, Marathon, speaks 
to the substance of the programand the validity of M2 core principles---Quality versus 
Quantity, Variety in Training, Need to seek out Efficiency, Body Inviting.

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Bill Roesch, from Chicago, just bettered his marathon PR by 25 minutes, running 3hr28min
in Madison Wisconsin.  Bill's winter training diet featured Total Body Training, concise
Treadmill sessions which many M2 athletes are familiar with.  Consistent with M2 Inverted
Training Pyramid (Reverse Periodization to some) Bill did most of his long (read race specific)
runs in the last 6 weeks of his training.  

To say Bill is ecstatic would be a bit of an understatement. Oh, and along the way, Bill 
increased his Benchmark #2 wattage (functional threshold wattage to some) by 45 watts.

Ironman Wisconsin is Bill's next major objective.

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Chirag Mehta, Manhattan NY
I began working with Chirag this past February.  Chirag was a capable runner with a marathon best of 
2hr57min.  His goal is Ironman Germany, and along the way the Boston Marathon.  

With a brutal winter on the east coast, much of Chirag's run training was on a treadmill,
but per M2 routines where focus is on quality and progressive overload, most sessions about 
45 minutes, and a long session would be an hour, but where the routine is constantly varied, 
time passes quickly.

Although we did not focus on Boston and had planned on just having it be a long training run
fun experience, the week before Chirag was so excited about his burgeoning fitness that we 
decided to let him go for it.  

So what did Chirag do on a hot and difficult spring day where the times were slow????  How about
2hr43min, smashing his previous best.  

Chirag did 2 runs over 2hours, and one run of 1.75 hours.  Funny how yet another athlete who
"forgot his base" and didn't run enough miles, somehow smashed his personal best on a weather
adverse day.  Chirag credits the concise treadmill workouts and the M2 EA (Enhanced Aerobic)
workouts on the bike for this radical improvement.  

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Daniel Willis, North Carolina
Daniel started with me this past winter, after having read several of my training articles, and
which made intuitive sense to him.  My phone range on a Saturday early afternoon, and it was an
excited Daniel who had just won his age-group for the first time ever in a local sprint event.  
Made my morning and I had extra pep in my pedal stroke as I headed out to ride shortly thereafter.

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David Fix, Chicago
David is training for Buffalo Springs, has a swimming background, and pounds out the training.  Hits
the workouts consistently, updates the training log, provides weekly concise feedback---all the 
ingredients for changing his performance reality.

Thus far, a 2nd overall and outright win in local Sprint events.  One could say that David is 
pretty pysched.