All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
Last week, I shared with Club HillRunner.com members some advice: find the positive in your runs. Even a bad run or a bad week of running usually has some good that can come about it.
One of the members questioned me on this philosophy. …
Do you follow a training plan from a book or a website?
If so, what do you do when the plan doesn’t work quite right for you? Maybe the plan doesn’t fit your schedule well. Maybe it includes workouts you know burn you out.
Do you adjust the plan or do you try to fit yourself into the plan? …
These things happen to all of us. I hope we are all trying to minimize these occurrences but it’s almost inevitable that a whole training cycle is not going to go perfectly as planned. …
Late last year, I was listening to an episode of the On Coaching podcast with Steve Magness and Jon Marcus in which they interviewed Mike Smith, whose men’s team at Northern Arizona University had just won the NCAA Cross Country Championship.
In the interview, one quote especially stood out to me: “If you can’t be great, be good.” …
Do you ever find yourself looking at the workouts the pros do and thinking about whether you should do them?
It used to be hard to do this. We’d have to get a book like Running With the Legends. Now, you can just browse Twitter or Instagram and see all kinds of workouts.
These are fun to look at but is it really useful to look at them?
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