Mental Training: Getting through the tough stuff

Overcoming the Tough Stuff is the theme this week over at Runner’s Lounge and it really got me thinking. For me the hardest thing about running has not been running itself. The hardest thing is convincing my brain not to give up. I even looked into the subject and found this fab book: Brain Training [...]

Weekly Recap #7

A few weeks back I wrote a post about how I didn’t get the whole runner’s high thing. It was mostly about how I didn’t feel more energized from running. On that same post, Layla left this comment:
I am in SUCH a better mood if I run. I’ve been off all running for 15 days [...]

Food, Food, and More Food

This blog is part of Take It and Run Thursdays, which is put together by The Runner’s Lounge. Each week they put together a new theme to help those of us with writer’s block. It also helps start a conversation about important topics (like last week’s all-important topic of overtraining…).
This week’s theme is about food! [...]

Bad news for my training

I’m pretty sure I have shin splints. That or a stress fracture in my right leg. And it’s starting up in my left leg too. I know I should have taken time off running when it first started (Friday, last week), but the pain usually goes away once I start running so I did my [...]

Weekly Recap #6

I just finished putting away the very last of my things in my new home and breaking down the boxes. I began the unpacking last Wednesday and have been at it every day, except Sunday. I actually had most stuff put away by the end of last week, but today I did a major purge [...]

Beat the Heat

This week has been all about one thing for me: beating the heat. I got up at my normal running time on Tuesday (9 a.m.) and was shocked to find the mercury already in the 80s. I opened the front door and felt the heat rush in on me as though I’d just opened the [...]

Calibrating your Nike+ chip

Since writing my gear review of the Nike+iPod system, I’ve received a couple of e-mails regarding whether to calibrate the chip. I’ve also noticed that it’s one of the top searches that brings people to this site so I thought I’d answer that question here. Sorry for the repeat for those of you who have [...]

Week #5 Recap

As predicted this was a pretty lazy running week for me. My longest run of the week was only 3.25 miles. I still managed to get in some pretty good mileage because I ran almost every day, but because of my predisposition to not running too much this week, I could never finish any of [...]

Choosing a Hydration System

I’ve never been a huge fan of those super stylish water bottle belts that everyone seems to have at races. First, I’ve only really ever participated in shorter races (5K and 10K) so I found them to be pretty unnecessary. Second, I was worried I’d get annoyed with the water bottles banging against my bum. [...]