Why Do You Need a Rest Day Training involves progressive overload, gradually increasing the stress on the body during training (distance, duration, intensity). However you can’t just keep increasing stress. Training hard for more than a few consecutive days increases
Oura Ring for Runners
An important part of training is rest and recovery, but even with a personalized, periodized plan, how can you tell if any one run, cross training or strength training day should be an effort session, an easy day or even
Converting to Trail Running
Sometimes life doesn’t go quite as you planned. Having successfully completed the Dopey challenge I was planning on continuing with road running, looking at the New York, Marine Corps and London marathons … then what I thought was just a
Dopey Challenge Training
And so it started (again) … the post race endorphins that led to my signing up for the Dopey Challenge were gone, and 18 weeks of early mornings and long runs began. The Dopey Challenge is unique – 4 races
5 Tips for New Runners
Hindsight is 20/20 right. Looking back to 2015 when I started running after a 25 year break I did some not so smart things. Here are 5 tips for new runners to help avoid the mistakes I made Shoes If