-
New posts are normally published
Monday — less often during the cross country and track seasons - Follow the runner eclectic on WordPress.com
Search Site:
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Attempts at Humor
- Books and Movies
- Coaching
- cross country
- Field Guide to Tracks
- High School Runners
- In Memoriam
- Indoor Track
- Injuries & Health
- Japan
- Marathon
- My Back Pages
- Olympics
- PEDs and Drug Cheating
- Polls
- Pro Runners
- Race Reports
- Racing
- Records & Statistics
- Running Research
- Shoes
- Tanzania
- Track
- Training
- Travel
- Uncategorized
- Weather and Seasons
- World Championships
Archives
- January 2022
- June 2021
- March 2021
- October 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- January 2020
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
Category Archives: Training
The Long Habit
“If the nearnesse of our last necessity, brought a nearer conformity unto it, there were a happinesse in hoary hairs, and no calamity in half senses. But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying…” – Sir Thomas Browne … Continue reading
Time on my feet
It was a sweltering Sunday morning, and I was about ten miles into what I had hoped would be a twelve-mile run on the usual Battle Road loop. Although I had only a couple of miles to go, I was … Continue reading
Posted in Injuries & Health, Training, Weather and Seasons
2 Comments
Good advice… and why you should ignore it
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.” – Shakespeare, King Lear On the final Sunday of March, three weeks and one day until the 122nd Boston Marathon, Commonwealth Ave. in Newton is teeming … Continue reading
Wait…was that a normal week?
Sometimes, the absence of surprises can be the most surprising thing of all. When I returned from Africa two weeks ago I had no running routine, no strength routine, no base, and a strangely persistent case of jet lag that … Continue reading
Cabin Fever and the Value of Exercise on Long-Haul Flights
I didn’t experience my first really long plane flight until I was in my 50s. Until then, my longest trips had involved flying across the United States from coast to coast, or flying from the East Coast of the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Training, Travel
Tagged addis ababa, blood clots, circuit exercises, long-haul flights
1 Comment
The more you spend, the more you have
I’ve always been impressed by runners who celebrate birthdays by “running their age,” for example, running 30 miles on their 30th birthday, 40 miles on their 40th birthday, and so on. I have read that BAA Marathon Race Director Dave … Continue reading
Posted in Injuries & Health, Training
2 Comments
The Old Man and the Hills – Part 1 of 3
About six weeks ago, when the track season was still in full swing and summer still seemed far off, I agreed to fill one of the spots on a team planning to compete at the Ragnar Trail Relay at Northfield … Continue reading
You CAN get there from here
Photo: Jimmy Chin for National Geographic “On Saturday morning, 31-year-old Alex Honnold stunned the climbing world when he became the first person to free solo Yosemite’s mighty El Capitan, climbing the 3,000-foot granite monolith using only a pair of climbing … Continue reading
Red-Letter Days
There they are, prominent among countless undistinguished runs dutifully recorded within one’s physical or virtual training log, the workouts that tower above the rest like monuments. They are the long, long runs, or the special blocks, or the hardest track workouts you’ve … Continue reading
No Brain, No Train(ing)
More great news from the world of science, and by “great” I mean news to make runners feel better about themselves. Writing in the New York Times, Gretchen Reynolds summarizes recent research that links vigorous exercise to increased neurogenesis … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Movies, Running Research, Training
Tagged Brain Training, Matt Fitzgerald
Leave a comment