Life in the Fast Lane We all love to perform 'inside the lines' but how many of us are really willing to plan out and execute the work that needs to be done 'outside the lines' to insure our running and racing success.... No need for a lengthy blog today but rather just a reminder, a nudge if you will, to be rational in your approach and thinking towards your training...think and ponder on the difference between a necessary planned day off or even an improvised day off due to

Life in the Fast Lane How many Boston Marathon legends can you name here? (and NO I am not including yours truly in that statement/question!) As many of you know about me I started my running career a long long way away from the Boston Marathon, literally and figuratively.. Prior to my first Marathon completed in New York in 1990 in 4.41.43 Bob Glover in his excellent book 'The New Competitive Runner's Handbook' had brought me up to speed on the lore, tales and legends of the

Life in the Fast Lane 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 interest in what you are doing. If you pin a race number on, then do not make any preemptive excuses about this tweak or that tweak, this sprained ankle or that dodgy hamstring.......if they are issues, do not pin the number on! If you make the

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Life in the Fast Lane A short little blog today, the daily musings of a professional running coach~ simply to say to my reading audience that for more than two decades now I have thought this simple yet fun little board game to be a great metaphor for the life of a runner, especially the life of a competitive runner...~ We start each season (each training Macrocycle) at the bottom of the board and with intelligent sequential training methods we steadily move through each cycl

Life in the Fast Lane Today's daily musing is more autobiographical than usual and definitely shorter~ It is really borne from a gradual almost accidental change in my running which is ironic as my training has never been accidental, it has always been so planned and I think that is what makes this so enjoyable and interesting for me. My competitive running career started in reality in 1990 but really developed and grew in intensity from 1992 through to 2016 when I hung up m