Ryan

Strava is a wonderful tool. It’s a great way to share your training with friends as well as keep up with what your friends are doing. It’s loaded with great ways to challenge yourself and your friends. It also has kudos. Who doesn’t love getting that little virtual pat on the back for a run well done?

Garmin Connect and others also have great ways to challenge yourself and your friends, from pre-built challenges you can join to the ability to create challenges with friends.

However, there are things to be careful about with these tools.

What competitions matter to you?Read More »

This past week, I got in some very solid training. I had my highest volume week in some time, I put up three consecutive days of double digit mileage and I had a good workout earlier in the week. What a way to end a very solid block of training.

The only problem was that, by the end of the week, I found myself thinking a lot about what I was doing 15-20 years ago.

“This is a challenge? I used to knock out twice this volume at a pace 2-3 minutes per mile faster and call it an easy day.”

Compare yourself to your current selfRead More »

Things are still hectic for me so I’m going to be writing a shorter post today. I promise I will make every effort to spend more time writing next week’s post.

I wrote about this topic recently but I can’t stress it enough so I’m going to write about it again.

Enjoy the little thingsRead More »

I’m going through a rough time at work this week so this blog post will be short and less carefully edited than usual. I apologize in advance.

Rough times? Be willing to back offRead More »