Tag Archives: training
The Running Detective: Figuring out what works for you can feel like solving a mystery
Sometimes running forces you into the role of Sherlock Holmes. You may feel like you’ve been plunked down into any number of these must-read, classic runner tales of sleuth… Harrier Holmes and the Mismatched Taper When Watson’s GI Distress Wrecked … Continue reading
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The Day of Rest: Runners and their rest days
I think they must schedule the rest days during the Olympic Track Trials just as much for the fans as the athletes…it keeps all us crazy track fans from going into cardiac arrest due to over-excitment. I kid, sort of, … Continue reading
Runners Can Thrive Being Predictable: Why ‘predictable’ monotony doesn’t deserve such a bad rep in our sport
Can you predict what this runner is about to say next?Let’s face it, I’m pretty predictable in that I’m pretty happy with my own little routines. It’s not that I don’t enjoy adventure, I like to think I’m usually up … Continue reading
Runners Using the Rowing Machine? How cross-training can be used to give your running a BOOST by ‘sneaking’ in high intensity work
When I was a senior in high school, this young runner met the bane of her existence. She even put up her own money and paid to be tortured by this beastly contraption. The rowing machine. Little did she know … Continue reading
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Running Better Without Your Head: Without that mind getting in your way you could be running faster
“Off with her head!” the Red Queen shouted. Which begged me to question, “Would I actually run better sans my head?” Bear with my train of thought for just a moment, outside of losing those 8 pounds of noggin and … Continue reading
Running Through to the End: The Mental Benefits of Getting Through a ‘Bad’ Workout
Run to your happy place. But honestly the route to that happy place may not always exactly FEEL like you’re running on clouds, does it? Pretty sure my answer to that question between intervals 3 and 9.99 would have been … Continue reading
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Track Your Rest – What’s the ‘Right’ Way to Recover Between Intervals
In training, when you’re running hard intervals the emphasis is naturally on the hard sessions. You want to hit the splits and push yourself all the way through to the end. True, these hard sessions are what are going to … Continue reading
A Non-Love Letter to Quarter Repeats: I wish I didn’t feel like such a misfit stepping onto the track in anticipation of 400′s
A headline jumped through my screen, grabbed this runner around the around the neck and choked out a laugh, smile, then grimace from me in that order. ‘I Love Quarters.’ Now obviously all of our minds went right to track … Continue reading
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Do This, Not That the Running Edition Part I: Simple Tips But They Make a Big Difference
Some guy is off making millions off of his ‘Do This/Not That’ style books, well I think I’ll take the premise and apply it to running and training. * Instead of…crying every time you have to shell out the big … Continue reading
Plyometrics for Runners Part II – Jumps and Hops: I caught the Easter Bunny hopping away plyo style
Let’s talk some plyometrics.If you’re reading this and your face is already smeared with chocolate and Peeps sugar residue, you’ve done the Easter Bunny thing right. Just kidding…Happy Easter to those who celebrate and Happy Sunday to those who don’t. … Continue reading
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