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
Posts
QT: There is Value in Taking Breaks – Mentally and Physically
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
Quick Tip: What to Do the Week After a Long Run
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
The Only Way to Run Faster Is….
…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.