Distance Running

There was a time in my misspent youth that I could down a tray of meat lasagna and a box of Golden Grahams.

How many days off from running does it take before you're not even a runner?

There's a hilarious scene in the great NASCAR film Days of Thunder when hotshot driver Tom Cruise tells wily old mechanic Robert Duvall he doesn't know anything about cars. An insouciant Duvall dismisses the comment

There was a time when I would be enraged when races had incorrectly placed mile markers. Not so these days.

2018 Toronto Marathon: 2:55:17. 6:41 per mile.

Well here we are: 10 days before the New York City Marathon. The excitement in the New York running community is palpable. But I have some words of caution.

Night. What a time for a run.

I have always been skeptical of fad diets. They are, of course, by definition ephemeral. That's why they are called fads.

You know what's almost as enjoyable as a good, hard workout where you've hit your targets and felt fast and strong?

If I had my way I would have my training and racing schedule planned minimum 18 months in advance. But I rarely have my way.

I have had some spectacular runs in some of the most beautiful places on Earth, from Maui to Glacier National Park. But there is something enduringly wonderful in that most commonplace of all running venues: the 40

In a previous post I summarized some of the great performances from today's TCS NYC Marathon

There's a fairly predictable relationship between the amount of fun you have running a race and the results you achieve.

Matt Fitzgerald over at Competitor.com has a great article on the art and science of marathon pacing. Read it. It's terrific.

The highest point in the state of Florida is Britton Hill, sporting an elevation of exactly 345 feet above sea level.

To hear a runner tell it, the decision to Take A Day Off is a monumental moral quandary of a magnitude that approaches the trolley problem.