QT: Diz’s Law of Accumulated Fatigue for Runners
I’m not sure why, but I was recently reminiscing back to my high school chemistry days.
Anyway, the subject that was rattling around my brand for some still-unknown reason was Boyle’s Law. Read more
I’m not sure why, but I was recently reminiscing back to my high school chemistry days.
Anyway, the subject that was rattling around my brand for some still-unknown reason was Boyle’s Law. Read more
If some is good, more must be better right?
I’ve made a bit of a change to my daily routine lately, and it’s paying some pretty solid dividends for my productivity in the office.
The changes have been fairly simple and straight forward: I’m taking more breaks.
And that got me wondering if taking more breaks might help us runners as well… Read more
One of the most overlooked aspects of distance running is what you should do the week or so after a really long run.
After racing, there are a couple of standard answers.
There is the reverse taper technique, where you basically take the next 10-14 days and do the exact opposite that you did during your taper. Lots of stretching, and easy run here and there, hydrate like crazy, and after a couple of weeks you can get back to training for your next race.
Then there is the idea (that I think is bullocks, by the way) that you should take the same number of days off after a race as the number of miles run. So for a half, you take 13 days off. For a full, 26.
No way.
I’ll take a few days off after a full, but I’m not taking almost 4 weeks off.
So I guess, almost by default, that makes me much more of a reverse taper guy. And I’m ok with that.
But what do you do after a long run (maybe your longest ever) during your training for a race? Read more
…to run faster.
Sage advice, I know. But how often is the truth so simple that we overlook it in order to try to find a “better” way. For us runners, we want to get faster so we try the newest shoes, the fanciest sports drink, different energy chews/gels, and whatever else is new and flashy and endorsed/promoted by Usain Bolt, Kara Goucher, or Runner’s World magazine.
But the only way to get faster is to simply run faster.