For many runners, fall means one thing: goal race!
After training through the heat of the summer, fall (hopefully) brings the cooler temperatures that are conducive to getting out there and throwing down!
With a big goal race on the horizon, running is pretty straightforward.
Get your miles in. Take care of yourself physically. Get your mind right. Prepare for the big day.
But what happens after you cross the finish line? Read more
As fall racing season is starting to wind to a close, you may find yourself feeling a bit lost without having a race on your calendar.
Some runners, you know who you are, have already planned out their running/racing calendar well into the next decade.
This quick tip? Not for you guys.
It’s for the rest of us that struggle to figure out what’s next after finishing a big race. Read more
Now what?
How many of you have said that after you finish a race that you’ve been training for over the course of several weeks or months?
I know that I have.
During the course of the conversation I had with Martin Parnell recently on the podcast, we talked about the deflating feeling that you may get when you accomplish something that you’ve been working on for a long time. In my experience, and he echoed it as well, there is a moment of relief/satisfaction at accomplishing the goal but that is almost immediately followed by a feeling of anxiety about what will come next. Read more