Runningmonkeys

This week I have launched a brand new website.  For me, it is sort of like giving birth to a new baby.  I’ve been planning about it for about 9 months and last weekend the birth finally happened.  Enough of the analogies!
I’d like to introduce you to my brand new site called LifeGoalAction.com
It is a site […]

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Today we are sitting at the front of a typhoon.  It has been coming up from Okinawa and is just starting to show up here. 
First thing this morning I went running in the rain and I didn’t see any other runners.  All I saw were people huddled beneath umbrellas or giving me strange looks through the […]

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A marathon is run over 42.2 kilometres or 26 miles.  That distance is firmly entrenched in running culture as a mark of a specific type of run.  It is recognisable in much the same way as a 100m sprint.  A hundred metre sprint is never anything but 100m and a marathon is never anything but […]

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Yesterday when I was walking through the park with my 2 year old daughter I learnt a very important lesson.
It is summer here and the local wildlife, particularly snakes, just love lying in the sun and doing their thing.  My daughter, also likes doing her own thing and when these two things interact there is […]

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Marketing type people will tell you that the best shoe communicates your chosen  lifestyle, most accurately.
Retail salespeople will tell you that the best shoe is defined by product gimmicks.
The world will tell you that the best shoe depends on how successful you see yourself.
Reality will tell you that the best shoe is simply which ever shoe does […]

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I’ve just been reading a paper by a couple called Bernard and Veronique Cova called Tribal aspects of Post Modern Consumption research : The case of French In-line Skaters.
They describe the way that this category of people, the cultural group brought together  in the name of in-line skating, has formed more of a tribe situation rather […]

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The other day I received an email from a nice lady called Rosemary.  She had the pleasant job of informing me that I had won a million euros in a lottery based in the Netherlands.
I was particularly surprised since I don’t remember ever entering a lottery based in the Netherlands, but her helpful email explained […]

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Sometimes time is short.  Today is one of those days.  I have to decide how I will use my time to best achieve my goals.  I have enough time, today, to either run or right a full Running Monkeys post.  Guess what I have chosen?
Sorry, but running always wins over writing about running. 

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What makes a running habit stick?
Time - As with any habit it is the time that we spend doing it (how long we do it for) that locks in the habit
Intensity - It is how vivid the experience, and how much an impact it makes on us that locks in the habit
Complementary factors - It […]

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There are plenty of factors which determine how fast we can run.  Some are under our control and some seem like they are not.  A lot of people believe that the race you were born into is the penultimate determining factor.  More specifically, there is a lot of noise going around running circles that indicates that you […]

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