The dog days of summer are here but you are still a runner. You have just set out for a relaxing recovery run (see my Blog “Hill Training For Runners,” posted 4-Dec-14). It is late in the day and still hot; so you turn off the main road for a shaded trail through the woods. Suddenly, out of nowhere, they
Three Powerful Words. Have you ever found yourself in a heated discussion with a friend over some topical issue….global warming, gun control, entitlements? There are plenty of controversial subjects to choose from today and most make for exciting debate. (By the way, I hope you answered yes to that question. I hope that you do engage in energetic discussion with
Hill training? What is that? If you thought that it meant obedience training for your hills, you would be wrong. Hills cannot be trained to sit, to woof, or to roll over. If you thought so, please skip this and go to my next essay. In fact, hill training embodies the spirit of what I wrote for the letter “E”
In essays that follow we will talk about hill training for cyclists and for runners. But first we must answer this question: where is the top of the hill? No, for our purposes it is not where the hill stops going up and starts going down. It is twenty meters beyond that point. Understand this concept and you will grasp
