the Knee Knacker. As you can see from the courser profile below, there are no flat sections in the race. 2. Another race specific conditioning tactic was to include some faster paced running during each long run. I wanted to put in a good performance (relative to my own abilities; I had no illusions of competing for a top placing) so I had to make sure my body was used to pushing the pace especially late in a long run. 3. Each weekly long run was done on different parts of the course to train for the race specific terrain. 4. I worked on developing the functional flexibility of my adductors. I did side lunges on a slideboard three times per week to increase the muscles' range of motion while being loaded. Here's a video that shows the exercises I did. But as I detailed in my previous article, I still experienced running cramps in my adductors on race day so my training program didn't go far enough. Part of the problem of self-coaching is that I won't do some of the things that I may know I should do. What I'll Do Differently to Prevent Running Cramps Do more foam rolling on my adductors to reduce the tension in the muscles. Add some static stretching. While I'm not a huge fan of doing a lot of static stretching, it's another way to reduce tension in my adductors so it's worth adding into the program. I find it's also more