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Travel
Best
Running Trails of the San Francisco Bay Area. You may never go
home. Descriptions, links, and a small photo gallery.
Training
How
to Run Your First 50-Miler. Dropped on your head as an infant?
Here's the sport for you!
Training
for Your First Marathon. A practical approach.
An Interview with Three-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Peter Snell. Rich Engelhart's 2000 interview with Arthur Lydiard's most famous pupil.
Recovery
Part 1. Get Over It. Recovery is half the battle.
Recovery
Part 2. Optimizing Recovery. Train better between runs.
Recovery
Part 3: Kitchen-Sink Recovery Drink. A cheap, easy formula for
runners on a budget.
Two Ways of Thinking About Recovery (One is Wrong). Should we train to improve recovery? Or fitness?
How
to Get Fast. What kind of speedwork is best? How to develop
speed-endurance?
How to Get (Even) Faster. A surprising, proven way to improve your speed.
And How to Get Faster Still. Arthur Lydiard prescribed three kinds of aerobic running during the base phase. This one will make you faster.
More and More Speed...: Jay Johnson suggests another way to improve type IIB fast-twitch fibers.
How
to Get Into the Running "Zone." Secret key to easy, fast running:
harmonize your heart.
How
to Lose Weight. A healthy weight-loss diet that's based on your
body's special needs.
Arf!
Arf! (Train Like a Dog). Enthusiasm is a key ingredient of any
training plan.
How to Increase Your Mileage Enjoyably. Slow down to go farther? Hm, maybe not.
The Most Enjoyable Pace. Your own body will happily tell you exactly the pace it wants to run.
An
Experiment of One. "Scientific training" means tinkering in the lab
of our own, individual bodies.
Running
in the Fasting Lane. There are two ways to get more energy. One is
to give the body a complete overhaul.
A
Perfectly Reasonable Runner. Feeling-based training is an essential
complement to the scientific side of running.
Coach Aristotle: Great runs start with character.
Famous
Runner Warms Up. A long warmup opens the door to wonderful runs.
Training in the Age of Energy. Training is changing, from older mechanical
methods to a more flowing, energy-based approach.
Lydiard Guide Available Online. Arthur Lydiard's training ideas are neither "outdated" or "all about long, slow distance." They're fundamental and timeless.
Energy Management 101 for Runners. Arthur Lydiard discovered that training is about managing energy wisely.
Keith Livingstone's Wonderful Book on Arthur Lydiard's Training Philosophy. Training is cyclical — the "ups" of racing must be followed by a fallow time of rest and recovery.
Getting the Best out of a Layoff. The secret of thriving during illness and injury is to apply the same principles by which we train.
Five Arguments for Aerobic Training. Arthur Lydiard pointed out that anaerobic metabolism can be optimally developed in just 4-6 weeks, but aerobic metabolism can be developed almost endlessly, over many years.
Why Arthur Lydiard-style Aerobic Training Works So Well. Great ideas aren't discovered; they're invented. For the training of distance runners, Lydiard got there first.
Should We “Train Up” or “Train Down”? The “experiment of one” needs to be conducted with all due caution.
Civilized Training. ‘Oh what delight to, be given the right to, train like civilized ladies and men...’
Upright Runner. A straight spine improves performance and enjoyment.
Commentary
Defending Jeff Galloway. The countless “Gallowalkers” make fast marathoners look good.
"True
Sport" at the Olympics. The Games tell us our own story.
Both
Sides Now. Kids find joy in sports with positive encouragement, not
blame and shaming.
"Sluggish
Newbies" Make the Marathon Better. In defense of slow runners.
Darwin,
Dawkins, Distance Runner. Why can't religion be like running?
(long)
Jeff
Galloway's Run-Walkers: No Class? 3-hour and 5-hour finishers have
much in common.
Bill
Walsh's Lessons for Runners. The coach of three Super Bowl
champions changed sports forever.
On the Trail
A Face Full of Heart. Running well begins with self-acceptance. Oddly enough, so does living well.
Crash.
Nature abhors sudden changes - and in running, it abhors them with a
vengeance.
Heart & Soul
Running Warrior. Being a running ‘innie’ takes a special kind of courage.
Faceplant. Call me credulous — I believe every faceplant carries a message from a benign and caring cosmos.
Innies and Outies. Running has two sides; the best runs start and end within.
Once More, With Feeling. The five stages of a run — managing them well guarantees enjoyable running.
Pickin’ Up Good Vibrations. Places and People Can Make or Break a Run.
Every Runner's Friend. Dr. Armando Siqueiros guided Jordan Hasay with wisdom and humanity.
Let's Get It Wrong. Mistakes are inevitable; they're part of learning and improving.
Goosebumps From the Running Fringe. Spiritual practice on the run is a practical aid.
Running Coaches vs. Running Teachers. The best mentors speak from personal experience.
Heart & Structure. Intuitive training needs the steadying hand of discipline.
Inside-Out Running: Getting the story right.
Elements of a “High-Quality” Run. Quality is about more than speed.
‘Flow Running’ and Joseph Bharat Cornell. Strage similarity: nature awareness and running.
Male and Female at the Races. Running is male and female, a balance of feeling and reason.
Next Generation Running: Train With Your Favorite Star Trek Characters.
Crash: The Perils of Contractive Training. We can't find inner quality without honoring nature's laws.
Finding the Joy of Running. To find the sport's enduring joys, cultivate calm feeling.
“Getting It Together” on the Run. Bringing the 5 tools of a runner into a single harmonious flow can seem dauntingly difficult task — but it's easy when we start in the right place.
Have You “Found Yourself” as a Runner? The NY Times is wrong; good training takes both feeling and reason.
Body Bust: When Good Training Gets Out of Hand. New information can sometimes carry us to fresh heights in our training - but only if we resist the inevitable temptation to take a good thing too far.
Incidental Joy. Good runs happen and fitness improves when we're in balance.
Exploring Energy. Energy heals, and increases with positive thoughts and feelings.
A New Direction: 5 Stories About Energy. The details of training matter only insofar as they help us generate a powerful flow of energy.
Lucky Runs. Exceptional runs begin by accepting reality as we find it.
Seasons of a Runner. Every run has three "seasons," and each season has its appropriate pace.
Seasons of a Runner 2: Children of Light. Getting the best from the seasons of a running career.
A Runner Stumbles. Faceplants are Nature's way of letting us know something's wrong with our attitude.
Simple Runner. In running and life, happiness accompanies simplicity and expansive attitudes of the heart.
Solving the Riddle of Training. Runners can sometimes learn more from running than from thinking too much.
Doing
the Numbers. Numbers-based training is tricky - it needs to be
tempered with calm, reasonable feeling.
Twisted
Path of a Distance Runner. Part 1 of my story: how I learned
certain inner truths of running and life and came to write Fitness
Intuition.
Runner
Meds. The key roles of serotonin, food, and positive attitudes.
Song
of the Road. Passively listening to music can increase a runner's
endurance up to 15%, but making music of our own gives much more power.
Tarzan
Go To Gym. 66-year-old ape man discovers it IS possible to have a
good time lifting weights.
Breathless.
Little-known breathing methods make it easier to run fast.
Lightly
I Fly. A meditation on the Running of the Heart and the Running of
the Mind.
Training
in the Age of Energy. Training is increasingly about nurturing
energy, not following rigid systems.
Whole-Hearted
Runner. The heart knows how to train well and run happily.
Ages
of a Runner. A runner's career evolves in stages, each with its
challenges and rewards.
Old-Man
Training Plan. Making do with dwindling resources.
Running
Magic. Slow is the beginning of fast.
There
Are No "Bad Runs". A difficult ultra brings opportunities and
lessons.
The Look.
The self-images we aspire to can tell us a lot about our goals.
Heart
Zones. External versus internal heart monitor training.
Half
a Cheer for Overtraining. Doing too much has a (tiny) positive side.
The
Intuitive Runner. Does intuition work? Can you develop your
intuition?
Mental
Drift or Mental Discipline? The best runs are built by paying
attention.
God
& the Distance Runner: Elite runner Josh Cox doesn't merely
spout the words; he tests his religion where the rubber meets the road.
Finding
the Right Discipline. Not too hard, not too soft — good training
and great runs take balance.
Take
Out the Papers and the Trash. More thoughts on energy-based
training.
Patterns
of Energy. Say goodbye to the age of mechanical training.
Where
Runner's World Went Wrong. Glitz and mechanics versus substance and
soul.
The
Natural Zones of Training. When science takes a backseat to the
wisdom of the body.
Training
- the Energy Game. Training well requires managing energy wisely.
Running
for Results. Research shows that running for rewards is not the
best strategy..
The
Art of Running, the Law of Running. To run your best, be a dancer,
not a hard guy.
The
Way of the Heart. Finding the way to inner quality.
Satisfaction.
Cheap thrills or inner expansion? It's a runner's choice.
Our
Own Kind of Champion. Physical limits on running ability are real,
but there are no limits to emotional and spiritual success.
Two
Nifty Ideas for Runners (long). Want more joy in your running? Just
follow the rules.
Running's
Big Unanswered Questions. When sports science lets us down, where
can we turn for answers?
A
Runner's Heart. Intuitive training uses the "natural love of the
heart."
The
Runner's Brain. New brain research suggests fresh ways to improve
our running.
Balanced
Training. Learning to train means learning to listen.
The
Difference Is the Heart. The best running follows the best
attitude.
Old
Man Runs Like Kenyan. To run your best, start slowly.
Speed
Thrills. Can you build speed and endurance with “Tabata intervals”?
Kids. To
train well, consider how you'd coach a kid.
Learning
to Trust Your Training. It shouldn't take 20 years to learn the
keys to good training.
How
Prefontaine Trained. The paradox of running: train like the great
ones, but do it your own way.
Hard/Hard
Training. Some great runners train hard all the time. Can we do
likewise?
Pedal
to the Metal. Who we are is how we run.
