Runningmonkeys

Your program says you are supposed to be running hard today.  A tempo run designed to boost your running economy, and aerobic condition.  It should look like 12 klms at about 4:20 per kilometre but you are struggling a shuffle at 4:40 per and you feel like dropping out at 6 kilometres.  Your legs feel […]

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If you are anything like me, as soon as you get a new toy, you just have to try it out.  You are barely through your front door before you have it out of the box and are giving it a go.  It doesn’t matter if it is a CD, a tool, a book or […]

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Drills are a fact of life.
How is it that we learn to walk, talk, read, write and in fact how do we truly learn any skill.  We learn by practicing.  We can hear, read or see the concept, and so we can understand, but we still can not do it until we practice.  When we […]

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Watching a baby learning to walk is an amazing process.  First crawling, then clambering up, then standing with support, then walking with support, and finally they take their first tentative and wobbly steps without help.  If a baby wants to walk there is practically no way to skip a step and still get walking properly.  […]

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As you may have seen in my introduction to the pose method of running, I have just read and begun to implement this new running style.  I have decided to set out for you a summary of the principles of this revolutionary technique.  Firstly, though, I must warn you that it is not enough (or advisable) to make use of this method or […]

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To finish off this week of comment crawling, I am going to ask you a simple question.
What is the best resource you have found for running information?
 It could be a book, a club, a website/blog, or even a person.  Whatever (or whoever) it is, give it a plug here and share it with all of […]

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For some of us, there is no choice.  We either run alone or we don’t run at all.  For others of us we only run when our running partner drags us out the door.  Forgetting these options where we have no decision to make, is it better to run by yourself or with a running […]

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Well if you have finished the three weeks of the beginners three week program you are now ready to start running.  You have progressed to the stage where you can now jog for 7 minutes straight, take a short walking break and run for another 7 minutes.  You have practised the extremely important habits of warming up […]

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Now if you have finished weeks one and two of the program, you could well be feeling pretty happy with yourself, and so you should.  You have just spent two weeks cultivating the start of a bunch of habits which may drastically change your life.  If you stuck with it you have demonstrated the sort […]

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So if you have read and accomplished week one from the previous post (Beginners running - Week one of a three week program), then your body will be nicely warmed up.  You will have experienced the satisfaction of doing something for yourself which is both good for you and fun.  You will have begun a habit […]

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