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The Red Oval....

Life in the Fast Lane 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 ~ I most definitely subscribe to this mindset. Track is the perfect environment to train students of all ages, to help them develop their craft in all facets from technical running form, to pacing precision to u

Horizontal movement (....be the pusher)

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 do NOT heel strike ! #runtallruneasy #posture #ballet #technique #Development #peacefulwarrior #reducingrunninginjuries #Tipssuggestionsforperformance #simpleadvice #properrunningform #NewYork #Youthrunning #r

The Peace Inside of Pain ~ *

Life in the Fast Lane 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 % is simple enough, rest, fueling, adrenaline etc but a great deal of it is the unknown and the unexplainable… it just is what it is ! However more and more I see the pressure of people attaching their self e

The Starting Line

Life in the Fast Lane I stepped on the starting line for the first time in exactly 1 year on November 26th, 2017. The Navesink Challenge is a 15k that starts right across the street from my parents house (so convenient). I won the race last year and soon after went into a downward spiral of not feeling well, which, if you are just tuning in you can read about in my first blogs. I went in prepared, knowing the course like the back of my hand and having done a couple of tempos

Evolving emotions ~

Life in the Fast Lane Good day and welcome to the Life in the Fast Lane blog at www.runtallruneasy.com I apologize as it has been an unusually long time since I have 'put pen to paper' in my blog but here we are today and I trust all is well with you in your corner of this beautiful globe...I am just coming out of my busiest time of the year as a coach so please forgive me ! I am honored in addition to coaching my worldwide Run Tall, Run Easy athletes but to also be the Head

Don't be a 'beach cruiser'

Life in the Fast Lane ! Don't get me wrong, beach cruisers are fun, they are great, they are just not completely efficient or fast ! I should definitely know as we live within close proximity to the beach, always have and we always own them.. But they are built for comfort not speed. Clearly not a bike going to be used by the Professional riders of the Tour De France.. those bikes have many many gears to allow for changing conditions, elements both created by their human opp

Hit those trails for a 'change of pace'

Life in the Fast Lane ~ I love to run roads, I do, I love hitting the track but I also love to hit the trails and the country roads...the trails provide fabulous rich air quality and of course shade to help with those summer scorcher days...of course one has to be careful of poison ivy if one is allergic and especially careful of ticks in the summer time but you can assist here by wearing a three quarter tight and 3/4 length sleeved tech shirt.. Make sure you know where you a

Running Biomechanics & Injury Prevention & Management

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One day special clinic- three specialized presenters ~

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Intrinsic over Extrinsic....

Life in the Fast lane ! Today's daily musings of a professional running coach over a nice hot cuppa java are related to my reality that the faster or more elite the runner the more intrinsic they are in their mental and physical approach to their training and racing. As an example if we were to sit in the bleachers at the end of a major marathon adjacent to the finish line such as in New York we would notice the considerable difference in the amount of technology (gadgets) w

Because it Matters!

You say you want to achieve a goal and that is great, to me it is a big part of the excitement of life but you must be ready not necessarily to meet the goal (that part is unknown), no you must be ready to take on the journey....you must find inside you the steely strength, the desire, the focus, the concentration and the resolve to keep working toward it, through rain and shine, through thick and thin, through ups and down, over hills and through the valleys.......BUT most

Outside the Lines...

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

Declare Your Intent !

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

Running Mechanics is where it's at !

Life in the Fast Lane ! Those that know me well know that I am passionate about the concept of perfecting one's running mechanics~for you...not for someone else or to copy someone else but there are certain fundamentals that we should aspire to both attempting perfect practice 'outside the lines' as well as 'inside the lines'...for my purposes of explanation outside the lines in running is equivalent to a golf participant seeking perfect practice on the driving range and thus

Got push ups?

Life in the Fast Lane "I don't have time to strength train" is a complaint that I hear a great deal from my athletes and students ! My answer is always the same "If you want to succeed to the best of your ability as a runner, you cannot afford not to strength train"...but it does not have to take all day, nor should it.....but with few exceptions (and this includes busy Corporate exec types that spend hours on a plane each week) there are few people that cannot find a little

Horizontal movement (....be the pusher)

Perfect practice makes perfect !

Forgive me for not being impressed when I hear someone has twenty-five or thirty years experience in a field- what does that mean exactly? I will give them credit for tenure or longevity but that does not make them trustworthy at their craft by default. Trust has to be earned by demonstration or by ratified testimonials. If someone has been playing the guitar badly for twenty five years then they have just become really good at playing a guitar badly- similarly with coaching

You have to 'Get on the Bus'...continued.......'The rest of the story'

Life in the Fast Lane From my 'Life in the Fast Lane' blog from Monday, March 13th 2017 I declared my intent from that day forth to make Belayneh my friend and foe....he was at 2.06.50 and I was at 3.28, so how much could he improve and by how much could I close him down?...I knew wherever he was, in the hills or plains of East Africa, the mountains of South America, the European Forests or the great tracks and trails of the USA, I would track and pursue him relentlessly with

You have to get on the bus !

Life in the Fast Lane In the winter of 1992/1993 I was working at Ocean Honda in Santa Cruz California, it was a job, it was not my passion but it did give me a chance to work with my brother Neil, which I enjoyed. The money was good at the time and the owner was very supportive of my developing running career- in fact a couple of years later he would be instrumental in helping me transition to a career and life change into personal training and ultimately coaching....A few m

Squeezing the body through the windows of the mind as we maneuver the mind to areas we need the body

Life in the Fast Lane Competitive running can often be associated with a series of barriers - time barriers for sure and barriers that our mind can perhaps place upon us either as a doubt or perhaps even as a defense mechanism. A mental governor perhaps to stop us pushing ourselves too hard. For those that have read my book Run Tall, Run Easy you may recall the concept that the definition of cardiovascular fitness stems from the fact that the human body does not like to exerc

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The Red Oval....

Horizontal movement (....be the pusher)

The Peace Inside of Pain ~ *

The Starting Line

Evolving emotions ~

Don't be a 'beach cruiser'

Hit those trails for a 'change of pace'

Running Biomechanics & Injury Prevention & Management

One day special clinic- three specialized presenters ~

Intrinsic over Extrinsic....

Because it Matters!

Outside the Lines...

Declare Your Intent !

Running Mechanics is where it's at !

Got push ups?

Horizontal movement (....be the pusher)

Perfect practice makes perfect !

You have to 'Get on the Bus'...continued.......'The rest of the story'

You have to get on the bus !

Squeezing the body through the windows of the mind as we maneuver the mind to areas we need the body

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