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Meditation in sport Practice, Practice, Practice… Mindfulness is all the rage right now. Everyone is talking about it. Apparently everyone is doing it in one form or another. It is reported that the vast majority of ‘successful’ people, however you define that, have a mindfulness or meditation practice. Top level athletes have mindfulness practices as …
Trail running for beginners I went through my website and saw that I have written many articles about trail running. I waxed poetically about my trails. I documented grueling trail races. I posted videos of Buddy and I out in the woods. I wrote about how to fall down. I told you how trails are …
What to expect at Boston on a “hot year”. Seeing the weather forecast I figured you could use my experience here. Of the 14 Boston Marathons I have run, one, 2004, was a ‘hot year’. Here’s what I learned. The first wave now goes off at 10:00AM so the faster runners will get into the …
Cross-training with Les Habitantes Introduction: I’ve spent way too much time inQuebec Cityover the last decade. I got around to thinking about how for all the time I’d spent there and all the runs, I’d never written down the particulars. I had forgotten how beautiful a city it is by spending too much time working …
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Pocatello Marathon 8/31/2013 – Marathon of the month #5 “Let me be worthy…” I said in a soft, broken and choked voice. We are a huddle of a few hundred runners in the pre-dawn, moonless still of the high Idaho desert. Our huddle is thrown in stark white light relief by the portable spotlight array …
