Tag: steve remy

  • Treadmill (n.): A Good Tool for Speedwork

    Treadmill (n.): A Good Tool for Speedwork

    Treadmill (n.): A torture device perfected in the 20th century, designed to destroy one’s mind though sensory deprivation and monotony. -Mark Remy Runnersworld.com executive editor, in The Runners’ Rule Book Mark Remy is right, the treadmill is a torture device!  We should try to do most of our runs outside.  Get out on trails, run…

  • To Bandit or Not to Bandit….

    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…

  • Just run around the block

    Just run around the block

    Runners Rule 1.35 “Just run around the block” “On days you don’t feel like running at all, tell yourself you’ll just jog around the block.  Then go do it!  Nine times out of 10, those few minutes of movement will be enough to kick you into gear and you’ll want to keep going.  And that one…

  • It’s back!  Here come your runner’s rules…

    It’s back! Here come your runner’s rules…

    HI Runners, For those who have been following me via email prior to the blog you have been around for Mark Remy’s Runner’s Rule Book Lessons.  With race season approaching and some loyal runners requests for a refresher Mark Remy’s, The Runner’s Rule Book: Everything a runner needs to know–and then some, is taking up coffee…