Category: Running & Thinking
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I’ve lived in the American South for my entire life. I’ve spent 44 summers here. I’ve melted away in each. Running, playing sports as a youth, or just being a kid on a hot Alabama day. To be honest with you, I’d rather live in a place where it is 58 degrees year round, with…
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Ok, time to wrap this series up with a brief post on the role of hills in the long run. As I’ve said before, one cannot expect to perform well on a hilly course by reducing hill training to one mid-week session. Hills must become a staple of the long run, especially as you practice…
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I wrote this on my old blog more than 18 months ago. But I think it still merits a read. So I am reposting here. The Emotional Side of Running (Originally posted on December 26, 2009) No one who has set out for a run can deny that they have felt a range of emotions…
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So, for a recent example of what I’m currently discussing, here are two workouts from this past week. The first took place on my regular Friday hill run. As I wrote in the last Adaptive entry we are using Mountain Drive for hill training, along with 11th street. So here was the plan for the…
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So, how does one train for a course with this kind of elevation? So, over 26. 2 miles the SF Marathon course has a net elevation gain of around 1,686 feet. And there are some pretty nice hills to cover as you try to maintain a Goal Marathon Pace (GMP). So the question remains: how…
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Found on YouTube. Needs no explanation.
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One of the first books I got when I started delving into training philosophy behind running, specifically the marathon, was “Run Faster, From the 5K to the Marathon: How to Be Your Own Best Coach,” by Brad Hudson with Matt Fitzgerald. My friend Megan recommended it, since she had used it as an aid in…
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Today marks the point on the calendar where the San Francisco Marathon is only 26 weeks away. Of course, “only” doesn’t sound proper for that many weeks unless you are a marathoner. Most marathon training cycles are 18-20 weeks long. So 26 doesn’t sound that far away for me. On July 31 sometime a little…
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For the first time in more than a month yesterday I ran fast. Well, fast for me. Did my first tempo run since going down with ITBS for a few weeks. I’m all better now, but had yet to really push myself until yesterday. Last week I ran close to 36 recovery miles with some…
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What is it that drives us to do the things we do? To set goals? To attempt things that seem just beyond our reach? That to others seems ridiculous, a fool’s errand, a march of folly? Why do we aspire? Where is it that we derive the gumption to set a goal and pursue it?…
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By popular demand, and hearing how it has helped some people pack for WDW races, I’m reposting a video I took in early 2009 just before the 2009 Disney World Marathon. Since you really have no clue what the weather will be at that time of year, you have to be prepared. Find more videos…
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