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Back to basics – How to become a runner from scratch. Or a better runner There’s an assumption that running is easy. That it involves no specific skills or body of knowledge. The zeitgeist of our sport is that all you have to do is show up, do the work and keep at it to …
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Hill training for Flatlanders How to train for the Newton Hills in the Boston Marathon Holy Cow! It’s been a rough February. Just when you’re supposed to be hitting the meat and potatoes of your marathon training for Boston we get snow and ice all-day and every-day. How do we get ready for those pesky …
One simple way to lose fewer friends to cancer… It makes me mad. Let’s do something. Too many of my friends and family are getting their lives ruined or ended! All of us are getting impacted. It seems that every week someone I know reports a new battle with this stupid disease. We don’t have …
Running the Boston Marathon – 6 tips From a veteran mid-packer My friends, many of you are joining us in Massachusetts this year for the Boston Marathon. This year will be a bit of a circus but the course dynamics haven’t changed. Allow me to offer some tips. I have run the Boston marathon at …
Beginner Marathon Tips Looking at it from a different angle I got asked what my tips for first time marathoners would be last week. I was stymied. There are potentially thousands of things I’d like to tell a first timer. However, I realize that telling them a thousand things is the wrong thing to do. …
