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Fartlek What’s behind the silly name? If you’ve been a runner for any amount of time you’ll inevitably hear your running friends sniggering about fartlek runs. What are they and how do you use them in your training. Fartlek is a Swedish term that means ‘Speed Play’. The Swedish coach came up with these workouts …
Molly Seidel Everything good about marathoning I didn’t watch much of this year’s Olympics. I knew who was running, but really don’t have the time to sit and watch the soap-opera awfulness of the network coverage. But, I have to talk to someone about how impressed I am by Molly Seidel. The lessons to be …
Why 100 miler and why now? How does one decide to run 100 miles? These are excellent questions as I find myself, somehow, inexplicably, registered for my first 100 miler. How did this happen? It happened as I was thinking about something I could do this year that would challenge me in a real and …
Counting Calories The final frontier. “I can’t lose weight.” “It’s just not my body type.” “I have a really low metabolism.” “I’ve tried 100 different diets and none of them work.” “I don’t burn very many calories – I’m just too efficient to lose weight…” These are the voices in your head. There may be …
Be a mad scientist to improve your endurance sports An experiment of one. I am involved in an ongoing experiment. I have this complex physical and mental system that I own. I try various controls on the inputs to this system in order to test what the outputs are. I start with a theory; let’s …
