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Road Racing Again I’ve been thinking about road racing. I have run two road races in the last 30 days and it reminded me of how they are. Where I live in New England we have a very robust distance running community. The local road racing scene has been a thing since the running boom …
Shifting the Balance as you age Some of us have the great privilege to grow old. Some of us are even lucky enough to carry our healthy lifestyle with us into our aging. And by doing so we learn how to adjust our approach depending on what phase of life we are in, or, as …
The Power of Compounding What happens today is the result of thousands of small actions and choices that have been made in your lifetime. In our talk with Rachel today you heard about the impact of small changes, persistent changes, over time. In our off-camera, off-microphone conversations I asked her why, if all this nutrition …
The impact of losing weight on your running Does losing weight impact your running? How much? How? Clearly, common sense and Newtonian physics would say that losing weight make you faster. And it does. But there’s probably more to the story than that. Has this ever been tested? Yes, it has. The first test in …
Surge Run Deep Dive Today I’m going to use the context of a specific workout to talk and teach about training in general. The workout that I’m going to use is a surge run. From the mechanics of a specific workout we can synthesize the goals and challenges and methods of training in general. What …
