1. Great profile of Hal Koerner
2. Anaerobic development key to running speed
3. Why its hard to transition from being a high school team runner to running on a college team
4. This may be of interest to those with chronic ankle instability
5. Key part of practice: refinement
1. Four areas to improve during your winter training
2. The importance of good practice (I’ll link the parts here each day)
3. The placebo response
4. Part 2 of Vern’s essay on periodization (Part 1 is linked here)
5. Part 3 of Vern’s essay on periodization
1. The rebirth of Ultimate Direction.
2. Ten laws of injury prevention
3. Mental side of running: preparation and pondering
4. Funny!
5. The benefits of daily exercise, especially during holiday season!
1. I’d rather have beer than chocolate milk
2. Asia’s marathon craze
3. Rethinking how to find your lactate threshold
4. The 20 most inspirational runners in the US
5. Fat burning: more in low- or high-intensity exercise?
Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful that you read my silly little blog.
1. An ultrarunners fear of marathons
2. Sports tech black friday deals
3. Runners on Instagram (My pal Leigh is number 2!!)
4. Runner safety tips (Mine: run in direction of oncoming traffic and assume cars cannot see you)
5. Holiday gifts for obsessive, weird runners
If you like Zensah, they are having a 50% off sale for Black Friday, which starts Thursday. And you don’t even have to stop eating to shop!
1. 20 best Thanksgiving Races
2. Not sure how long this has been around, but looks cool
3. Ultrarunning skill 1: Persistence
5. The man who will run ALL of Pittsburgh
2. Just in time for shopping season!
3. How cold weather affects your running shoes
4.Cool video footage from Western States
5. Everyone has a white whale
what is your white whale?
1. Interesting concept here. Not restricting the training week to 7 days
2. I like this. A lot. I trust Fitzgerald implicitly on running matters. (love his points on high fat diets DURING training)
3. UnderArmour acquired Map Mt Fitness. What it means
4. If you have an off-season, here are tips on making it a good one
5. Scott Dunlap is my blogging hero. Great post
1. Is fit the new rich?
3. Plantar pressure patterns and injury prediction
4. Intriguing take on the concept of periodization in training
5. A new feature to an app I have yet to try. Anyone have experience with it?
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