When it comes to taking on a challenge as big as training for your first marathon, you don’t want to go it alone. My first marathon was anything but a success. Sure, I finished the race (2002 Rock ‘n Roll San Diego), but I took so many missteps throughout the training—and even on race day—that […]
The way I see it, you only need to eat healthy twice during the day. While you’ll certainly eat more than twice a day, just two healthy meals — a smoothie and a salad — make it pretty hard to screw up the rest of them. The first time is in the morning, when a […]
Somewhere inside your head, my head, and everyone else’s head is a traitor. Meet the Resistance. The job of the Resistance is to keep you where you are. Because where you are is safe, and it’s pretty tough to fail when you’re standing still. What the Resistance looks like When you stare, paralyzed, at the […]
The title says it all. That is, if you get it. I didn’t at first. I figured “Forks Over Knives” was simply a reference to vegetarians’ choice not to kill animals for food. But an image on the film’s webpage leaves no doubt as to what the title really means. In the upper left of […]
Everyone knows that the cornerstone of any marathon training program, and especially any ultramarathon plan, is the long run. Well, guess what? It turns out everyone might be wrong. Eliminating the sacred long run Brian Mackenzie and the people at CrossFit Endurance are training their athletes to run 100-mile ultramarathons on less than 30 miles […]
You might have noticed that I’ve been quiet around here over the past week or so. No, it’s not that I’ve fallen into groupie-dom on the Backstreet Boys / New Kids on the Block tour, despite any Facebook rumors you may have heard. The real reason is that I’ve been busting my tail to put […]
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