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QT: Don’t Stress About Running Over the Holidays (Best Of-ish)

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The last six months of the year can a bit crazy, yes?

Between now and the end of the year, things just tend to be a bit crazy.

Holiday parties. Christmas pageants for the kids. End of the year “things”. Family demands. Travel.

Add it all up, the routine is a hot mess from now until somewhere around 4-5 January when the New Year is here and we settle back into our normal busy lives.

All of this disruption can wreak havoc on the training plans of anyone running over the holidays.

But it doesn’t have to. Read more

QT: Give Grace When Life Gets a Little Carried Away

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How do you respond to others when they are struggling a bit?

Do you bite their head off? Kick them when they’re down?

What about when you’re the one that’s having a hard time at the moment? Read more

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QT: Life Happens to All of Us, So Adjust and Move On (Best Of-ish)

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This post was originally part of Episode 403 released in April of 2017 and is more or less copy and pasted from that post. The audio, however, is a new take on the topic.

Sometimes life happens.

And when it does, we have to readjust our regular routines and our priorities, and that may mean missing a few runs along the way.

Is it ideal? No.

But it’s life.

Joker Sucks

Life Happened to Me This Week

This week has been a pretty darn good week, except for the fact that I didn’t run or do yoga or do pilates or do anything even remotely physical for two straight days. Read more

QT: It’s OK to Reset Your Running Goals at Any Time

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How are you doing with your 2022 running goals?

Kicking ass and taking names? More or less doing alight?

My year has been a bit of a mixed bag so far, to be honest.

A few areas? Straight up killing it.

A few others? Not so much… Read more

QT: Maintaining Flexibility in Your Running is Often a Necessity (Best Of-ish)

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Usually, the post for the “Best Of-ish” Episodes is simply copied/pasted from the original post and I embed the new audio file here. When I first broached this topic back in October of 2015, my post writing wasn’t as “developed” as it is now. So this is the old post with a few new bits added in as well…

I’ve talked a lot about the need for runners to work on improving their flexibility.

As a whole, we are incredibly inflexible.

Bad Running Habits: The Pre-Run Static Stretch

But as it turns out, our inflexibility often relates to more than just our hamstrings, calves, and hip flexors. Read more