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Originally Posted by EtienneSM

I'm no expert in anything at all, this is just all from the noggin so apologies if I'm wrong in any aspect, haha.

it's hard to figure out how he is at speed or distance when it sounds like he has rather little of a training base in. if we feel like finding out, let's give him some sprint workouts later on :3

if you have a smartphone and some way of reasonably carrying it, it can basically replace the GPS watch. plenty of running type apps that do the same thing. GPS won't help if he's not running outside though :P i dunno, i'm just averse to spending money on equipment; i didn't even buy spikes until several years after i started, and just did my races in a big heavy pair of training shoes.

stretching afterward is super super helpful except so many people skip it thinking it's not. most people i know stretch beforehand and that's it.