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5 great reasons NOT to run trails… Trail Series part one – warming up to trails. I love trail running – so much so that I can’t imagine anyone NOT loving trail running. But, as I was out running this week I was forced to consider that some people might not like trail running. I …
Interludes 1.2 – NYC Marathon (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/NYC.mp3] Link NYC.mp3 Act one – The Bridge Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – All in a Day Freezing and about half way across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and the wind was blowing sideways at 20-30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. Physical shivers racked me …
Overlapping training plans How do you figure out how to stack dissimilar endurance events? I’m in an interesting situation where I am training for the Boston Marathon in April and the a 100-miler in July. This isn’t a unique situation. Most years I’m training for different events and many times they overlap. How do you …
The Pitfalls of Caricature I just read Scott Jurek’s book “Eat and Run”. Scott is one of the more famous ultra-distance runners in the world having won the Western States 100 Mile endurance race multiple times and set several records. I have known of Scott and his reputation for a few years, but I had not …
Boston Marathon 2016 Walk-Through Let me give you my walk through of what to expect at Boston. Not an exhaustive, detailed review just some things to consider. Because the best advice I could give you for this race is already irrelevant. That advice would be to respect the course and train well. If you have …
