Runningmonkeys

So, here I am in the second week of my brand new training program.  So far I have fulfilled 100% of the running I specified, but that has only been 9 runs.
The program includes a long gradual base phase as per my posts on base training.  I picked a maximum mileage of 105 kilometres per […]

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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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The Pose Method of Running is designed to make me run faster.  Gradually it is achieving this.
The VDOT concept (by Jack Daniels) is  designed to compare running intensities.  It does this by allocating a number on a scale to a group of comparable finish times (over different distances). 
What happens when these two principles meet?

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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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Are you the sort of person who keeps laughing well after the joke is over?   Are you the person who keeps eating even after it is physically impossible to fit any more in?  Or are you the person for whom a ”high distinction” isn’t high enough. 
Then perhaps you should be racing the Lake Saroma Ultramarathon this weekend.

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Today I ran for 5 kilometers, non stop!  Are you impressed?  Well I don’t care, I am excited. 
5 kilometres is nothing, right, but the bit that excites me is that for every step of that 5 kilometres, I landed on my forefoot.  That is right!  I landed on the ball of my foot and as […]

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Over the last few days, the Runningmonkeys team (me…Tom O’Leary) has been working on renovating and sorting out this site.  I hope you like what I have done.  I’ve installed a new wordpress theme called Cutline.  After sorting out a few little issues it all seems to be running smoothly and I hope you agree […]

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Following the “Top 5″ article writing competition hosted by Problogger, I intended to read and rank every post.  But I had no idea that there would be so many submissions, and so my plan has failed.  I will get through them all eventually but for now, the best I can do is pass on the […]

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Hi
I know this is sort of off the topic of performance running, but this post is about internet service providers.  More specifically, I have created a survey in order to find out what is important to customers of internet service providers.  The survey is part of my study of marketing research with Monash University and […]

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Aim to finish your training runs later than you start them.  As a result you will virtually guarantee time on the road, which is a step in the right direction to superior performance.  Simple…but stupid!

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