(First published in the Birmingham Track Club Newsletter, May 2013) Twenty hours of driving over rough, mostly mountain, roads delivered me to Jhamtse Gatsal. I was disheveled, a bit disoriented (altitude combined with weariness), and nearly desperate to escape the...
(First published in the Birmingham Track Club Newsletter, June 2012) “Running,” writes Matt Fitzgerald, “is an endless source of learning…” Obviously runners learn about running through running, but running’s influence on our neural geography goes miles...
(First published in the Birmingham Track Club Newsletter, April 2012) As runners, we tend to check our state from the neck down. Heart rate? Monitored. Quads and hammies? Feeling good. Pace? On target. Gait? As close to Ryan Hall’s as it can be. However, improving our...
The pain of training is nothing compared to the pain of not reaching your potential. —Josh Cox “When did you run the marathon in Phoenix?” “January.” “Wow, look what you’ve accomplished in a year!” “Pfft.”...
