Month: July 2014

Adapting to Weather Changes: Humidity

Tina Muir
humid, summer, weather
Weather can really mess us up. We can train hard, have everything right, and then at the last second, a weather change can make our entire race plan go down the toilet. Humidity is definitely one of those bad weather situations that can cause a drastic decline in performance. BUT, before I go on, I…

Fish with Peach-Mango Salsa

Tina Muir
dinner, fish
Article after article, case after case, day after day, we are told that people living in the Western World (particular those of us living in America) need to work on our diets: eat more vegetables, less saturated fat, more whole grains. I could easily go on, and then there are the other articles that show…

How to Modify Your Race Plan to Run in the Wind

Tina Muir
weather, wind
In our plushy (is that the right word?) little world, we can come up with things to complain about that really would not be even worth mentioning in other countries around the world, but as we are lucky to live in the countries we do, these are our biggest problems. One of these first world…

Hanover Firecracker 5 Mile Recap

Tina Muir
5 miles
Joining Jill this morning Happy Saturday! I hope everyone (well, my American readers) had a wonderful 4th July, and you were as lucky as we were in Michigan to have an absolutely perfect day weather wise. I ended up in Holland, MI at the beach, and it was beautiful. I may complain about Michigan more…