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Follow up on Speed work for beginners Hopefully I didn’t break any new runners! I received a bunch of feedback from people on my two ‘speedwork for beginners’ articles from a couple weeks ago. Many of them were very enthusiastic. I can picture happy, excited newbies tramping down to their local high school track, doing …
The total body workout for runners Keeping it real You have heard me talk about doing ‘a total body workout’ (and if you’re close enough you may actually hear me grunting while doing said total body workout – but that’s another story altogether). I’m going to take this opportunity to talk about it in a …
The Groton Marathon – 2018 It always seems like a great idea in the fall when it is a couple months away. Then as the last Sunday in December approaches I wonder what the hell I have gotten myself into? Despite my reservations and the usual line of calamities, the Groton Marathon went off without …
Using Gratitude to Make Yourself a Better Person Leveraging a simple emotion for powerful results. I am reading a very good book; Emotional Success, the Power of Gratitude, Compassion and Pride, by David DeStefano. I have just finished the first section on the power of Gratitude. This really resonated with me. I have lived through …
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Endurance Endurance is different from grit or perseverance. Endurance is the ability to keep pushing in the face of discomfort, but also in the face of an unreasonable future. Endurance is the ability to put up with pain and discomfort, but also irresolution with no real offer of succor or success. To endure is to …
