Getting home late at night isn’t all that uncommon…I usually get out of work at about the time that I’d prefer to be eating dinner in an ideal world, and most nights will then coach and/or run before I head home. If you are as busy as I tend to be, you might not get [...]
Read More...This weekend I ran the Black Fly In My Eye 10 Miler at the base of Mount Washington. My wife and I didn’t decide we were going to run this until Friday morning, but we had a general idea that we might throughout the week after being offered a ride by fellow Trail Monster Ryan [...]
Read More...Pete Magill and Grace Padilla offer some tips on how to incorporate 5 different types of hill workouts into your training schedule to build strength, speed and endurance in a short time in this 9 minute video: The dialog is a little corny at times, but it’s amusing to watch and they offer some great [...]
Read More...The past 3 weeks, I’ve tried running with a different crowd but they leave at 5:30 so I’m always a minute or two late trying to get there from work. This week I parked a few miles away and ran towards them so that I could actually get a run in with them, which worked [...]
Read More...Jeremy Litchfield, the founder of Atayne, was recently on Fox 23 to talk about bringing his company back to Maine. He started his company after going out for a run in a hot day and getting covered in dye from the shirt, which made him realize most performance sports apparal doesn’t fit in with his [...]
Read More...Former NFL running back Amani Toomer is going to run the New York City Marathon this year, and if you are running as well then he’ll be gunning for you! Toomer is the first NFL player to run in 17 years, and he wants to raise money for New York Road Runners youth programs. To [...]
Read More...One problem with races that require you to register months in advance is that it can mean you wasted your money if you can’t run for some reason. If you get injured, or decide to go on vacation, or have any other commitment come up then you are usually out of luck. Another problem with [...]
Read More...There can be a lot of reasons for chest pain, and any time you have experience it (especially during exercise) then you should probably visit your doctor to make sure that nothing serious is going on. If you have been cleared by your doctor as healthy or would like to try a simple self-remedy to alleviate the pain, then you may just need to change your breathing habits.
Read More...What do you get when you combine 25 gig of photos with some on-course digital audio and some time spent with your favorite video editing software? For Ryan Mercer, you get a really neat stop motion video of his view of the 2010 Keybank Vermont City Marathon:
Read More...Bernard Lagat set a new 5000 meter American Record earlier today when he ran 12:54.12 for a 3rd place overall finish at the ExxonMobile Bislett Games in Oslo. That’s 2.15 seconds faster than Dathan Ritzenhein’s previous record of 12:56.27, which was set last August at the Weltklasse Meet in Zurich. Chris Solinsky was close behind, [...]
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