November 6, 2019
‘The Art of Intelligent Pacing’
Many years ago my coach said to me one day “GP, sometimes you have to run slower to run faster”..he went on to tell me that he wasn’t going to explain what he meant but rather he wanted me to draw my own conclusions.
Several...
October 9, 2018
Twenty eight years ago I was three weeks out from participating in my first marathon, the New York Marathon circa 1990. I say participating as I think of it as disingenuous to say I was racing it. Don’t misunderstand me. I do not mean to...
August 13, 2018
A good friend of mine and former elite training partner Danny G, an excellent California High School track & XC coach described the environment of track as 'Carnegie Hall' ~ elite, high line and precise and road training and racing as Rock n Roll ~...
May 23, 2018
Life in the Fast Lane !
Outside of a mastery of the science of the particular sport one is coaching (in our case distance running) one of the most, if not the most important responsibility and indeed necessity of any coach is to teach and not use the ath...
May 15, 2018
Declaration of intent !!
Athletes,
We are connected by a common bond of being competitive athletes. We share in the pain and the elation of “Daring to Fail”. “Declare your intent” to yourself and to those who take inte...
May 10, 2018
The drive phase and horizontal flight path of a professional triathlete
Life in the Fast Lane
Work on your craft of the midfoot strike, work towards perpetuated motion with great posture and focus on pushing not pulling, remain as horizontal in direction as possible and...
April 25, 2018
Racing is more than just stepping to the line !!
Racing is more than just the sum of the parts of training….
I believe we can draw 25-35% more out of ourselves on race day than we can with any training session. How do we explain that? Some of that %...
April 10, 2018
I was on the track recently with a young student that I coach. We were executing a speed interval workout together..During one of the recoveries I happened to comment, as her times continue to reach new levels, that this is a process of discovery~...
April 3, 2018
Life in the Fast Lane
In the mid nineties I co-founded the Iron Maiden's Women's Running Group in Santa Cruz, California. It offered a safe developmental environment of camaraderie and professional coaching to female runners of all levels.. The timing was fortuitous...
February 18, 2018
Try Your Best To Be…Injury Free!
As many of you know I am currently training for the Boston Marathon but just recently ran into a low level Achilles tendonitis issue. I was not worried, it was just a twinge but I knew I had to nip it in the...
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