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4 more good reasons to work on your form Other cool things I’ve discovered by cleaning up my form. This winter during my ½ marathon and marathon campaigns I made a conscious effort to clean up my form. I focused on not heel striking, landing on the midfoot with a slight forward lean and my …
Life is performance art Composing a life – the age of active wisdom I listened to a really interesting interview of Mary Catherine Bateson, who is the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. (Which must make her crazy. Because Margaret Mead was the popular cultural anthropologist of the 1960’s and 70’s.) She has some …
Running the Shikoku Pilgrimage: 900 Miles to Enlightenment Amy Chavez Now available on Volcano Press The book is Chavez’s 900 mile (1,350 km) run around Shikoku, Japan. Averaging almost a marathon a day, her journey lasted five weeks. The goal of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage is enlightenment. For over 1,000 years, Japanese people …
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How to invest in training that will pay off down the road. I went for a run with my club Sunday. Ollie the Border Collie and I joined for a slow 7 miles on the back roads of Groton where I grew up. I got to talking with one of the guys in my club …
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Using your Fear How to flip the script on your own natural fear of loss Fear is a primal and powerful motivator. We are wired for fear by evolution. Fear is not rational. We think we are rational beings, but we are not. We think the prospect of success or gain or love motivates us …
