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Richmond senior @MaggieDoogan (@OHaraGirlsBball) has been named a WBCA Honorable Mention All-American Doogan is the back-to-back A-10 Player of the Year and helped the Spiders to the NCAA Tournament the last three seasons She’s projected to be picked in the WNBA Draft this month

@Lovato22 Would love his contact info!

If anyone is looking for a young/hungry assistant coach, player development guy or video coordinator please let me know! 👀 I have an extremely talented GA who has been with us all 6 years here at Texas! This guy is going to be a rock star! ✨

@BDStan Alex Louin Richmond WBB alex.louin@richmond.edu

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Inbox: Nebraska vs. Richmond drew 456K viewers, making it the most-watched Women's First Four game on-record. #ncaaW

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The résumé speaks for itself. 🕷️🏀 Maggie Doogan has been named a finalist for the Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Award! 🫰 🔗 – spides.us/4rMhsIp #OneRichmond

@celtics @NBA Did Pritchard say Clark

In honor of International Women's Day, we asked the guys to tell us their favorite women in sports 👏

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Senior Day memories secured. 📸 
Now it’s time for business. Rhode Island rolls into town tomorrow and the stakes are high.
 Be loud. Be early. See you at the Robins Center @ 6 p.m. 🕷️🏀 #OneRichmond

DOBO duties ➡️ HC 🪣 @AlexLouin getting us ready for g’day! 🕷️🏀 #OneRichmond

@hjluks Thanks for the reply. Which is better for improving marathon times- aerobic or cardiorespiratory? Or is it 50/50

Absolutely not. We’re probably about two different aspects of “fitness”. Cardiorespiratory vs aerobic. So. Yes. Someone who can sustain hours below LT1 will likely have superior aerobic fitness. Someone who lives above LT2 has a huge lactate shuttle but won’t oxidize fat well. And that’s the goal of aerobic fitness.

Yesterday, I said that if a new runner’s heart rate shoots above 150 within the first few seconds of starting, they probably shouldn’t be running. When someone who hasn’t trained consistently begins jogging, and their heart rate rapidly climbs into the 150s and stays there, that effort is not aerobic base work. It’s high-intensity work relative to their current conditioning. It may not feel “hard” in the way sprinting feels hard, but physiologically, it is well above the zone where foundational adaptations occur. True aerobic base development happens below the first lactate threshold. That’s where mitochondrial density improves, capillary networks expand, and fat oxidation becomes more efficient. That’s also where oxidative stress is manageable, and the recovery cost is low enough to repeat the effort frequently. If heart rate is immediately elevated, the body is operating in a more glycolytic state. Oxidative stress increases. Sympathetic tone rises. Recovery burden goes up. That may still improve fitness, but it’s not base building. It’s stress accumulation. There’s another layer that matters even more in midlife adults: the speed of tissue adaptation. This is my office hours every week. Many runners' injuries are training errors. The cardiovascular system adapts relatively quickly. Tendons, fascia, cartilage, and bone adapt slowly. When you combine high metabolic stress with repetitive impact load before tissues are prepared, the mismatch shows up as plantar fasciitis, Achilles pain, knee irritation, hip tendinopathy, or stress reactions. Most new runners don’t quit because they lack motivation. They quit because something starts to hurt. Brisk walking, incline walking, rucking, cycling, or structured walk-run intervals allow aerobic adaptations to occur with a lower oxidative and mechanical burden. As aerobic efficiency improves, heart rate at a given pace drops. As tissues strengthen, impact tolerance increases.... Then running becomes sustainable. Running is a phenomenal tool. But durability comes first. Base comes first. The ability to recover comes first. And yes... sprinting is fine. High HR is fine... don't come at me about this ;-). But... as @Alan_Couzens and @feelthebyrn1 and @inaki_delaparra and others will also tell you... Your base training is foundational. Take the time to build it and maintain it.

.@AlexLouin SHOTS UP! 🕷️🏀 ESPN+ this afternoon at 4 p.m. vs Mason 🫰

𝟐𝐊 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟒𝟒. @MaggieDoogan Doogan joins the 2,000-point club, forever etched in the record book! ❤️🏀 #OneRichmond

Justin. Bieber. That’s it. That’s the tweet. #GRAMMYS

Most of us got our long runs today. How many miles are you putting in?

Maggie Doogan???

Most underrated player in women’s college basketball.

𝟒𝟖 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝. 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤. 🏆🔥 🗞 – spides.us/49YvYpB #OneRichmond

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