Marathons Don’t Have to Hurt!

The book is now live! It’s FINALLY ready…it’s been more than a year and a half that you have been asking me to write about more tips on how to get ready for your marathon. It’s been more than 6 months since I started writing this book. I was up to all hours of the...

Exhaustion settles in…

Ever since I originally wrote a series of articles on marathon preparation and recovery for some friends of mine a year and a half ago, I thought about writing a book on the subject. I finally began that project this past Summer, and for the past couple of months I...

New Rules of Lifting (For Women)

A couple of years ago, I reviewed The New Rules of Lifting by Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove. It is one of my favorite exercise books and I have tailored quite a few of my lifting routines after ones that were provided in that book over the past couple of years. A...

Again to Carthage book review

My copy of Again to Carthage arrived this week, so I gave it a read through. It is a very different book than Once a Runner. You can read and enjoy Carthage without having read the first book, (which is good as it still costs in the hundreds of dollars,) and fans of...

Strength Training Books

In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about great sources of information for the month of November. This week, Scott discusses old strength training books. He divides the books up into rough categories based upon when...