running

Wet Run and Pruned Fingers

July 27, 2011

It’s a two for one post today. The first thing someone said to me when I moved to Charleston, South Carolina was that it hadn’t rained once in the entire month of June. So I thought that we’d be experiencing a lot of sunny days and having to be concerned about hydration and watering the [...]

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Running a 5K? You Can Do It!

October 25, 2010

Here’s a quick video on getting yourself into shape to run a 5K (3.2 miles) and a link to an article that has the chart that I talked about in the video. also a bonus, here’s a video of me singing in a local musical…

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High Intensity Interval Training and The “Fartlek”

April 12, 2010

Now that warmer weather is here, you might want to consider the fartlek. I am not talking about bird watching or some bizarre stretching routine; fartlek is a Swedish term meaning speed play, and it is somewhat related to the high intensity interval training I have recommended before. Interval training has multiple purposes. First it [...]

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Barefoot Running, Running Shoe Injury – Vibram – Splitting the Difference

April 6, 2010

A short article on running and my history of running. I started out my organized running my freshman year of high school on the cross country team. That lasted all of one year, but instilled in me a love of running, while also embedding the realization that I am not going to be a ”fast [...]

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