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How Fast To Run Your Easy Runs?

How Fast To Run Your Easy Runs?

After such great feedback on my podcast episode with Amanda Brooks on Low Heart Rate training, I wanted to talk more about easy runs. Because too many of us are running our easy runs TOO FAST! Many of us make the mistake of running the majority of our miles in a kind...

Complementary Therapies For Runners

Deena Kastor explained in her book that our running can be affected by outside stresses; financial, personal, can affect our physical and mental fitness. She explains that tension, caused by relationships and financial stress can manifest itself in physical and mental...
The Mental Side of the Marathon

The Mental Side of the Marathon

Your mind gives up far before your body will. Apparently, when your head tells you to quit, your body is only 40% DONE. This weekend, I ran the Reading Half Marathon, and felt pretty miserable for about 10 miles of it, I even joked that I would have bailed on the race...
Stay Safe on Your Run

Stay Safe on Your Run

Not only do we have to contend with cold weather and rain, but the darkness that makes winter running so brutal. For most of us it’s dark when we leave the house to go to work and dark when we get home from work, so when do we squeeze our runs in? Unless...