The Hills Are Alive…

Saturday was a real test to see if I have fully recovered form the IT Band injury that plagued the last part of 2008. Hills, the arch nemesis of the IT Band injury, was on tap for Saturday’s training run — a short 6 miles packed with hills going up and down...

Tracking in 2009

With the first post of 2009, I’d like to do something a little different — I need your opinion. I’m looking to purchase a GPS running watch fairly soon and am unfamiliar with which watches are better than others. I’m not looking for something...

FREE Nike Treadmill Workout

Recently Updated: Sorry everyone – the download code expired April of 2009. Maybe they’ll issue new ones for 2010, if so I’ll post again. Thanks for reading. Back in August, the Nike Human Race took place and Nike was handing out FREE 30-minute...

Planning for 2009

(Link for image above titled “Running Against the Wind”)  With only a couple weeks before 2009, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to pencil out next year’s race calendar. With the cost of registration fees increasing as race day gets closer, it always...

New Intervals – A Success

This past Saturday was our running groups 2nd crack (my first) at running 9:1 intervals. We started at the top of Golden Gate park and did and out and back to the cliff-house. The first half started off well and having run the park many, many times, I knew that we...

Kickin’ It Up a Notch

Many are surprised to hear this when I tell them, but I train using the Galloway Run/Walk method. It was the training method that was used in the AIDS Marathon Program to teach many first time runners (and advanced) in completing a marathon. That was over 2 years ago,...