With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, fall is unofficially upon us.
For a lot of us runners, that means the countdown toward fall race season is on.
Chicago. MCM. New York. CIM.
Those races, and dozens of others, will be here before we know it.
As you get toward the business end of your training cycle, I’d encourage you to make sure you’re having a bit of fun with your training, too. Read more
How nice would it be if every training run went perfectly according to plan?
The legs always felt good.
Your mental game was always dialed in.
And the miles just ticked by one after the other.
Sadly, here in the real world, that just isn’t the reality. Read more
My guest today is the host of the Kill Complacency podcast which is focused on living an intentional and disciplined life and the freedom that comes with that.
As someone who hated running a few years ago, he followed his advice and has now completed races of all distances including ultras.
I am looking forward to going a few easy miles with Marty Hofmann today!
Marty Hofmann
Running in the summer may be the flatlander’s version of altitude training, but let’s not pretend like these summer miles are easy peasy.
Like we talked about last week, fall races are coming quickly.
As such, summer long runs are something of a necessary evil for many of us.
Beating the heat completely isn’t always an option. But it is possible to not only survive your summer long runs, but to make them a little more comfortable as well. Read more
I don’t usually find myself ruminating on the questions that are posed in the monthly Q&A episodes.
Especially the questions about elite runners that Lewis tends to ask.
I’m convinced my man keeps asking these questions to try and get a reaction out of me, and I do my best every month to grind his gears by moving on quickly.
But I found myself going back to one of his questions from last month, and the more I thought about it the more convinced I became that I left a lot of meat on the bone.
Sounds like a problem we can solve, so let’s dig in. Read more