Yes, it’s that time again! Your chance to ask me anything you would like. As I always seem to mention, this is always one of my favorite things to do.
Almost nothing is off limits. Feel free to ask me about training, racing, what’s going on at HillRunner.com, or anything else. This is my invitation to you to ask whatever you would like.
…I’m sure we’ve all heard about the toll tech can take on many people, from teenagers who see impossible to live up to images and suffer self esteem issues to terrible stories of trolling and misinformation campaigns, these are just a few of the serious issues that I can think of off the top of my head.
Well, runners aren’t immune to this, even on sites designed by athletes, for athletes. Even tech that is designed to make us healthier.
Let’s start with a couple stories about that which I hope will serve as reminders to make sure you are using your tech to benefit you, not being used by the tech for the benefit of the tech company or others.
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Last week, in one day, my VO2max dropped from 60 to 57. Or so my Garmin told me.
Those of us in Wisconsin have had a very strange spring. It was cool to the point that it felt like we weren’t getting spring. Then, suddenly, things changed very rapidly until, on Tuesday, I found myself running in 85° weather with extremely high humidity, direct midday sun and pretty much no wind.
After one run in that weather, my Garmin said I lost a lot of fitness.
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Do you get caught up worrying about every little detail of a workout? Do you find yourself thinking “should I do 5 repeats or 6” or “should my recoveries be 2:30 or 3:00” or “should my long run be 14 miles or 15”?
If so, I’d like to encourage you to stop doing that.
…We all know how important our arm swing is for our running, right? You can be more efficient and faster with a good arm swing.
What if that wasn’t exactly the case?
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