Making significant changes in your running technique is deep work. It means changing not only the way you run, but the movement habits you have all the time. However, small simple factors you never even think of can have a large effect on your running and are a good place to start changing your gait for the … Read more
In this quiet time at the end of the year our hopes and dreams for the year to come begin to take shape. Perhaps some of yours have to do with running–what you’d like to do, how you’d like to feel, the problems you’d like to finally shake off. To give you a hand, here … Read more
When Mo Farah is out on training runs he says people sometimes shout at him, “Run, Forrest, run!” Not, I think, because of any particular resemblance but because the movie Forrest Gump is still such a widely-shared touchstone for distance running. For non-runners that’s probably because it gives some reference point for why a person … Read more
Though it can be harder to keep your fitness up, running through the holidays allows you to give yourself a truly valuable gift: novelty. Accept that gift, use it well, and you’ll enter 2017 a better runner than you are now. How does that work? Here’s an overview: Often we travel during the festive season and … Read more
