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I would like to say that I'm keeping all my New Years Running Resolutions with the intense dedication of a focused athlete but to be honest, my diet could still use some improvement. Last weekend was my own personal tribute to Buffalo Bleu Kettle...

There’s nothing like cold and wet weather to make you want to curl up with a good read! Thankfully, I’ve managed to combine the love of running and reading by focusing on books about running. Right now, I’m reading Born to Run which...

A big congrats to Walt for hitting PR of 27:31 this past Saturday! Thanks to a big fat cramp on the last mile, I did not cross the finish line with her but did pull in a sub-30 minutes run. Pushing myself too hard on the uphill starts left me with a rush...

So I'm back to the delicate subjects that runners face during training (I thought I would take a break to honor Valentines Day). Another unpleasant side effect of running is chafing. Contrary to what you might think, chafing while running has little...

Perhaps it is the anonymity of a blog that makes this an easy topic to broach but today I wanted to talk about a delicate subject, the runner’s trots. It’s a problem that Walt sheepishly asked me about when we started our training together...

For someone who now spends a great deal of time reading shoe reviews and thinking about the right fit for my running shoes, it's funny to note what simple shoes I wore as a child when I was decidedly more active. In a house of 5 kids, shoes were a...

“All that I am, I am because of my mind.” -Paavo Nurmi, 9-time Olympic gold medalist in track & field Now we aren’t all going to be Olympic gold medalists but there are benefits to increasing our mind-body awareness when running...