Transitions. Life is full of them. I am learning, as a newbie triathlete, that they are almost as dreaded in this sport as they are in real life. We figure out ...
I am letting no cat out of the bag by admitting that sometimes writers with a weekly column write a few columns in advance. That way, when stuck with writer’s b...
When I meet athletes at an event, many times I am meeting first timers. I ask how they are feeling and fairly frequently the words “nervous” or “anxious” pop ou...
Malcolm Anderson’s latest book, The Messengers, is a collection of tales from over 120 runners, each of whom has run over 100 marathons. While I am personally h...
A friend of mine recently said, “Today, I signed up for a marathon that will be run next January. I've probably got a while before I need to get serious about m...
Old dogs and new tricks. Tired old cliché, right? It might be but regardless of its antiquity I didn’t think the old dog would ever be me. But it sure seems lik...
For the second straight year I attended the Boston Marathon without actually running the race. And for the second straight year, I saw history made. As much as ...
If I knew exactly how I am able to recover rather quickly from one race and move onto the next, I would bottle it, put a nice label on it, and sell it at marath...
The fact that long-distance running is hard on the body is hardly a novel idea. Of course, by “hard”, I do not mean “detrimental.” Let’s nip the “running is har...
When I first moved to Salt Lake City, I chose the place I wanted to live based on very little to do with the apartment itself. The reasoning behind why I rented...
So the McRunner has done it.
Who is the McRunner, you ask? His real name is Joe D’Amico and his goal was to run a 2:36 at the Los Angeles Marathon all while ea...
At the Napa to Sonoma Wine Country Half Marathon last fall, I had the pleasure of meeting a runner by the name of Terry McCluskey. During the race, around mile ...
The miles are down. The legs feel great. The times are doing just fine, thank you.
I have long felt that mega miles during training runs are only necessary for...
While the winter for most of us is not the time to talk about track workouts, I have recently received a few questions about what I think about hitting the oval...
