Post written by Doug Hay. I will never forget my first energy gel. It was junior year of high school, 10 miles into my first half marathon. I was a complete distance running novice, clueless as to what I was getting myself into. The entire race was spent mimicking the more experienced looking runners around […]
A few days ago, I got an email from a woman named Lynita. It’s what today’s post is about. Here’s what Lynita wrote to me: I’m four weeks into the Marathon Roadmap training!! I felt the need to tell someone…but preferably someone who has no vested interest in my life in case it turns out […]
A lot of things seem like a big deal before you’re vegetarian or vegan… and none bigger than the question of how to deal with your first vegan Thanksgiving. “What do you do on Thanksgiving if you don’t eat meat?” is one of the more common questions people ask me. Almost as common is, “Do […]
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.” -Orison Swett Marden By far, the most valuable lesson I’ve learned this entire year is that […]
For four straight days, my kitchen has been completely destroyed at the end of the day. Food processor, Blendtec, Dutch oven, and every pot and pan we own completely filthy. The sink piled so high we started calling it Mount Dishmore. And right now, every time you turn on the front left burner of our […]
I know: New Year’s resolutions aren’t exactly fashionable these days. Far cooler than telling someone about your resolution for 2024 is to go around quoting stats about how ineffective they are, and how many well-intentioned self-promises are forgotten by the end of January each year. Or you can point out that January 1st is arbitrary, […]
In a post called In Defense of New Year’s Resolutions at the end of last month, I wrote a little bit about my own resolution of conquering the anxiety that effectively ruined much of the second half of 2012 for me. (Or, to take responsibility for it, the anxiety that I employed to mess up the second […]
My friend Jason Fitzgerald, who writes the brilliant blog Strength Running, taught me a philosophy that I think strikes the perfect middle ground in the barefoot-versus-shod running debate: “Run like a barefooter, but do it with shoes on.” What Jason means when he says to run like a barefooter is that you should run with […]
I started. Really, actually, started. The timing is good. This Saturday marks the end — of the hard part, at least — of writing my book. (I thought the same thing three weeks ago, but this time it’s for real.) And last Saturday marked exactly 24 weeks until the Burning River 100 Mile Endurance Run, […]
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a post called On Turning Pro, about my new mindset for the new year, one of discipline and responsibility. The post really struck a chord, even though it wasn’t specifically about running or diet (but the ideas in it could, of course, be applied to fitness and […]
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