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28 Nov 2025

Training Tips

28 Nov 2025

Winter Running Gear Guide – What to Wear at Every Temperature

It can be difficult to figure out what to wear running in the cold. Sure, you can use one of those calculators that give you recommendations for winter running gear, but how about real advice for running in cold weather? After years of cold weather running, I’ve put together this…

27 Nov 2025

Training Tips

27 Nov 2025

Running In Windy Conditions

In our plushy little world (is plushy even a word?) we can come up with things to complain about that really would not even be worth mentioning in other countries. But as we are lucky to live where we do, these are our biggest problems. One of these “first world…

25 Nov 2025

Training Tips

25 Nov 2025

How to Run By Feel Using the Effort Scale

I talk a lot about running by effort, instead of by pace, but I know that can seem kind of vague, so I’m going to break it down for you here. Let’s think about training in terms of a scale of 1-10, where 1 would be a very light jog…

04 May 2020

Training Tips

04 May 2020

Long Runs for Busy Runners – Marathon Training on a Tight Schedule

Last week I gave you four workouts to include in your buildup for the marathon, but we know that the long run is just as, if not more, important than the hard sessions, especially when it comes to actually seeing evidence that you can, in fact, cover 26.2 miles very…

20 Apr 2020

Beyond Running

20 Apr 2020

Why Runners Struggle with Sleep – And How to Fix It

There is a reason sleep deprivation is a form of torture. It is crushing, and I struggled with it for many years. It definitely affected the quality of my life, and meant that I dreaded bedtime every night, knowing how bad it would be. One bad night’s sleep from…

13 Apr 2020

Training Tips

13 Apr 2020

Training As An Older Runner (40’s, 50’s, 60’s And Beyond!)

I may only be in my 30s, and yes, that does mean I am not yet at the stage where I am having to experience a lot of the protests from my body that will come with age, or changes that occur in the fourth decade and beyond, but I…

30 Mar 2020

Training Tips

30 Mar 2020

Finding Balance Within Your Nutrition

Let me start with something in your face. You probably won’t like this, but unfortunately, this is the truth: There is no quick fix. There is no way to cheat the system (at least not long term), and the word balance, is just setting us up for all kinds of…

23 Mar 2020

Training Tips

23 Mar 2020

5 Workouts to Easily Add Variety to Your Running, Even When You Are Not Training For a Race

UPDATE: I actually wrote this before COVID19 turned our lives upside down. I have left the article mostly as is, but this time more than ever is a good time to try these out. As none of us have any idea when our next races will be, these will keep…

09 Mar 2020

Training Tips

09 Mar 2020

4 Marathon Training Workouts for Runners With Busy Schedules

Just signed up for your next (or even first!) marathon? How exciting! Other than the chunk of your hard-earned money that is no longer with you, everything about this period feels good. It brings on an endorphin rush of its own, and you start to envision the possibilities of what…

02 Mar 2020

Training Tips

02 Mar 2020

How To Learn To Love Your Body

Learn to love your body. Sounds so simple, but we all know, it’s not. It should be something we do automatically. Deep down we know how much our body does for us. We know it helps us to breathe and stay alive, carry children in our arms, give and receive…