Tag: racing
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Runner’s Road Kill! How This Mindset Can Improve Your Running
Road kill: n. a runner left in your dust. Traditionally Runner’s Road Kill counts are only kept when running 200 mile team relay races. While you are running your leg of the race you tally in your head the number of runners you pass. Once you have sufficiently fueled (with a sandwich and Coors Light of course, micro-brew if it’s…
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Running Drills to Improve Your Running Form
You know it is important to have good running form, but often it is developing that good running form that is hard. The 3 main keys to good running form is: Mid Foot Strike Angles: Dorsiflexed foot and knee to 90 degrees Forward Tilt Here are some running drills to improve running form: [leadplayer_vid…
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Easy Runs Will Get You Back In Shape
Have you ever taken a period of time off from running? Or maybe you didn’t mean to take time off, but when all was said and done you ran so infrequently you couldn’t keep up with your old pace. Getting back into running shape is probably the most frustrating thing! It is even worse than…
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2013 is the year you will run a marathon!
Now before you start thinking to yourself, “I can’t run a marathon.” Think about this: “Anyone can run a marathon. Oprah Winfrey did it. Senators, presidents, and movie stars do it all the time. The hit reality show The Biggest Loser even culminated in a marathon for the contestants who have lost the most weight–as if to…
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Proper Running Form is as Easy as Listening to Your Body
There was an interesting article in the New York times, given to me by my Dietitian friend Chelsey Bobcek. (Thank you Chelsey I love having articles sent my way! I would love anything YOU think I might find interesting!) In Finding Your Ideal Running Form by Gretchen Reynolds, Reynolds states, “ ‘You can optimize your gait naturally,’ she** says,…
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Visualization
Visualization is a great tool to utilize before a big competition. Think of it like a dress rehearsal that won’t tire you legs! To visualize you want to get yourself very relaxed. Lay down on your yoga mat or couch. Close your eyes or keep them open gazing at one point on the ceiling. Then…
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Running with Confidence
With the summer Olympics coming I am getting stoked to watch the highest level athletes compete in track and field (the American trials are June 21-July 1st in Eugene!). One of my favorite events is the pole vault, and since I vaulted for many years I feel the need to give a little bit of…
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To Bandit or Not to Bandit….
“Bandit (n., v.) One who participates in a race unofficially, without having registered and paid for it. Also: the act of running a race as a bandit. Also called jerk. Correct: Because he couldn’t seem to scrape together the $5 entry fee, Henry ran the Podunk Lions Club 5-K as a bandit. Incorrect: “I was…
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Rocky and fist pumps
“Rule 2.15 You will hear the theme from Rocky For road racers, hearing the theme from Rocky isn’t a question of “if,” but “when.” During any given race, the chance you will hear the theme from Rocky blaring at the start/finish line, or from a spectator’s stereo along the course is 75 percent. IF the…
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Going for the Great!
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -Prefontaine Great quote runners! So many meanings top two ways I can interpret his words: 1. When you’ve been invited to go to Happy Hour but haven’t hit your run for the day, forget how good that post work buzz will feel…