Many runners tend to schedule a goal race for spring or fall for one obvious reason: the weather.
While good weather is never guaranteed, it only makes sense to schedule your big races at a time when the odds of favorable conditions are at least slightly in your favor.
But could chasing ideal race day conditions actually impact the quality of your training cycle?
Perhaps… Read more
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.
But as it turns out, our inflexibility often relates to more than just our hamstrings, calves, and hip flexors. Read more
What a difference a year makes, eh?
This time last year, the thought of races being virtually eliminated for the next 12 months was laughable.
This year? It’s been a year (or more) since many of us have raced and it’s still uncertain exactly when we will be able to confidently plan for a return to racing.
Will this be the year that races are happening again?
I know quite a few people that are chomping at the bit to get back to racing.
If that’s you, I’d encourage you to spend some time now thinking about how you’re going to dive back into races when it’s go time. Read more
How important is proper rest and recovery to you?
How important is it to you to successfully reach, and potentially exceed, your running goals?
If you didn’t answer these two questions with basically the same answer, then you’ve got a problem. Read more
Every Monday morning, I sit down at the computer and update the training plans of all of my coaching clients.
For whatever reason, this week it really struck how repetitive most of the plans end up being.
While I pride myself on creating unique plans for each client, once a client finds the routine that works for him or her things start to look pretty much the same week in and week out.
