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Volunteering at a race. Since I haven’t been racing, but races are back locally to me, I have made it a point to volunteer. Why? Well, when you volunteer you get some of the same goodness of going to a race just in a slightly different form. You get to talk to runners. You get …
Love yourself like your life depends on it. The only good sub-head here is “Because it does…” This book is an updated version of the original e-book published by Kamal Ravikant. Karma led me to read it and I’m glad I did. It’s one of those strange things I’ve learned to listen to. You find …
4 Reasons to Embrace Heart Rate training The beat goes on… I thought it would be appropriate to do a bit of explanation about heart rate training. I have thrown around phrases like ‘Zone 4’ and ‘max heart rate’ without really defining them or explaining why they are useful. Heart rate training is using your …
Anatomy of a Hill Repeat You’ll often hear people talking about hill workouts. It sounds like there is one, monolithic thing called a hill workout. There are many nuances to hill workouts. I’ll share one with you today and go a bit deeper so you can practice. This particular type of hill workout I’m going …
Running with a head cold What does the research say? As it turns out there is not much research on this subject. The research that has been done showed that there was no measurable difference in exercise ability between people with colds and a control group without the colds. There was also no difference in …
