How much time do you spend in front of a computer?
Do you ever get stuck working for too long and just can’t seem to find a way to get out the door for your run? Or has it been so long since you ran that you couldn’t even say when or how far it was?
Do you ever get stuck working for too long and just can’t seem to find a way to get out the door for your run? Or has it been so long since you ran that you couldn’t even say when or how far it was?
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 have been working on it…
I wore my new Garmin ForeRunner 305 to the indoor track today so that I could make use of the heart rate monitor. That aspect of my workout was a failure, but I learned quite a few things about my new GPS watch and running on an indoor track. When I got home, I was…
I got lost in the middle of a lake today while I was out running. (If you have never done it before, then be sure to read the FAQ about Lake Running first!) You would think that it would be pretty difficult to get lost in the middle of a lake. After all, there are…
The following article was written by Pete Bottomley, the Director of Sales & Marketing at Coast of Maine Organic Products, Inc. Pete is a masters runner for Dirigo, R.C. and competes in mostly middle distance races in Southern Maine. He ran his first marathon this past April in Boston, and this past December traveled out…
The Spirit of the Marathon is a feature-length movie following 6 runners as they train for and run the Chicago Marathon in 2005. Deena Kastor takes center stage along with 1 other professional, 4 amateur athletes and a “Who’s Who of Marathoning” that make cameo appearances throughout the film (including Joan Benoit Samuelson.) The movie…
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 common question that…
I have no idea if this is going to be something that is worthwhile or not, but I signed up anyway. Pat Rigsby & Dax Moy are putting on “The 12 Days of Fitness” where you will be able to download (for free) a plethora of articles, videos and podcasts from 250 different fitness experts….
Do you listen to your iPod when you are working out? If so, then I have some good news for you. Personally, I do not use my mp3 player when I am working out because I am too worried that I would wind up dead if I buried my head in a set of headphones….
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 the first…