Category Archives: running
Distance Running: A world far crazier (better) than anything past the looking glass
Running is a crazy, paradoxical, numerical-obsessedo, backwards world. Just when you don’t think you can run another step, you push through five more minutes, then instantly you feel like your legs have transformed into two totally different running entities. You … Continue reading
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Runner’s Strip: The ‘J’ Word
I’m a runner. You can call me every insult in the book and I really won’t care. I will probably even laugh. But the second you call me a JOGGER…all bets are off. ——— Make your running even FASTER…posts HERE, … Continue reading
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Runner’s Are Wont to Worry: Make sure you’re stressing over the RIGHT paces
Runners seem to like to worry. Perhaps it’s a bit of the self masochism in us, on some level we must like to hurt, so it makes sense the same attraction is there for worrying. Our brains never seem to … Continue reading
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Approach the Pre-Run Runner At Your Own Risk
My ability to function as an individual relies quite heavily on my running. Perhaps more correctly my ability to function as a sane and friendly person does. I like to run first thing, I try to not go out into … Continue reading
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Brain Warp: Running mentally tough by changing how your brain interprets those pain messages
A runner’s brain is constantly being flooded by sensory input information. Feedback from the muscles, skin, lungs, eyes, ears, feet, nerves from everything. It’s a matter of taking all of these messages and warping them into what is in the … Continue reading
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Runner’s Strip: Racing Fart
There is an art to simultaneously running and farting. To be properly mastered, it takes an expert combination of selective muscle control and timing with your stride. That said, there are few things more gratifying than running and letting go … Continue reading
I’d Run Through the Eye of a Hurricane…Maybe not, well, maybe if I had to
I’m a neurotic runner, my parents are also neurotic fitness folks, my sister is a kick@$$ cross-fitter, my littlest brother is headed to the rugby State Champs. No, I’m not trying to brag on my siblings here, (well, maybe a … Continue reading
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Distance Runners Getting Their Speed Work On: The multi-level approach to getting faster
Getting a runner to be faster is an interesting undertaking. It’s actually a concept that coaches and athletes have been trying to perfect for centuries. As science has improved, training has evolved, we’ve created training phases and workouts that push … Continue reading
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Runner’s Strip: Form
Please, Runners, if for no other reason than the sake of vanity do what you can to improve your form. Joking aside, running with proper form will make you more efficient…running more efficient will make you faster. And hey, you … Continue reading
Let Track Season Bring Out the Gamer in the Runner: Each event, different variables to master
Lately it feels like my brain is running way faster than my legs could ever keep pace. That’s a darn shame, because one would certainly opt for running a new PR rather than mentally shouting, “SHUT UP!” to your brain … Continue reading
Hello! My name is Cait, I'm a freelance writer and artist who is more than a little obsessed with running. The Arty Runnerchick is dedicated to connecting with other runners and those sweat obsessed through words and art!