This month, I came across two interesting and slightly contradictory reads on injuries and running form, as well as a thought provoking topic on stretching and another on mindfulness.
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Form and injury risk, stretchingRead More »
About a month ago, I ran a 5 mile race at 6:03 pace. Cesar asked me how I could run that pace for a 5 mile race when my mile repeat workouts were slower (generally 6:20-6:30 pace in early spring, working down to 6:10-6:20 pace). As I recall, I offered a two part response.
First, I was doing shorter repeats at faster than 6:00 pace so it wasn’t a pace I was unfamiliar with.
Second, I wasn’t racing my workouts. I would expect my mile repeats to be slower than 5 mile race pace. If they weren’t, I’d be close to race effort in my workouts.
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I hope all of my fellow Americans had a wonderful 4th of July. I ended up keeping things low key but this past weekend, when I spent 12 hours at a theme park on Saturday, got me thinking about what some of you may be facing right now: that fatigue from a busy day or two.
It will affect your running but how to do keep that to a minimum? Here’s what I did to minimize the impacts on my running.
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Rebounding from a busy holidayRead More »
This month, I came across an article tangentially related to a blog post I wrote just a day after my post appeared. I also read about napping and running with friends. Who doesn’t like either of those things?
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Fitness trackers, napping, running with friendsRead More »
The past is over. You can’t change it.
The future isn’t here yet. You can’t do anything about it until it arrives.
However, the present is here right now and you can do your best to take care of it.
Want to know something amazing? Take care of the present and the past and future tend to take care of themselves.
Photo credit: PAST.PRESENT.FUTURE. by Estibaliz Saez de Ibarra, on Flickr
