I recently completed my first marathon in London. I followed the run walk and paced myself somewhere between my training pace and your predicted race pace. I completed the 26.1 miles in 4:28 and absolutely loved every minute. I was hoping your...
Heart Monitors: When they can help and when they can’t When Heart Monitors can help: To hold you back during a long one-especially at the end To make sure that an easy day is really easy To ensure that “form accelerations” are “easy gliders” To help you improve racing...
I have discovered that when runners have problems, they tend to occur in three areas: Posture, stride and bounce. And the problems tend to be specific to the individual, occurring in specific areas. Fatigue brings on most of the problems relating to form. A slight...
Running is nothing new. The ancient Greeks had foot races at least as early as 776 B.C., the year of the first Olympics. The famous runner Phidippides, in 490 B.C., covered 300 miles in four days to solicit help from neighboring Sparta against the imminent invasion of...
When we regularly perform endurance exercise, many positive changes occur inside us. I believe that this is due to the way our ancient ancestors adapted our bodies to walk and run for long distances. Assuming, then that our physical design and purpose is long distance...
Of all the things people do to improve attitude, running has been shown to be the best. Attitude research on people doing a wide range of sports, hobbies, art, and other lifestyle activities have shown that runners have the highest levels of the positive factors, and...