Icing Your Woes: Ice Early, Ice Often

One of the biggest mistakes that you can make is to ignore aches and pains when they are minor. Your body is very good at telling you things; the trick is learning how to distinguish between minor tears that are getting repaired and major tears that could lead to an...

Running Downhill

The DO Running Journal has a pretty good article about downhill running by John Harding. In it, there are six points to be made about downhill training: It is a good way to work fast twitch muscle fibers. It is a good way to develop and improve technique. It is a good...

Preseason and Beach Run memories

One of my favorite runs has to be the preseason Beach Run at Daytona Beach. When I was in college, we had two preseasons each year. At the end of each Summer my cross country team would get together a week or two before classes started. We would go somewhere different...