by Webmaster | Feb 27, 2025 | Stories
Member Profile: Jess Ruiz, 35 Jessica “Jess” Ruiz first trained for the marathon with Brian Clarke before the Covid-19 Pandemic, while she was preparing for graduate school. Now as a licensed physical therapist, she recently rejoined the BC Community and reflects on...
by Webmaster | Feb 21, 2025 | Hard-Easy System
I’ve written three books on the Hard-Easy System. Each was like a doctoral thesis of my understanding of the system at the time: How to Read Your Body (1986), Running by Feeling (1996), and 5K and 10K Training (2006). The recently completed video version presents the...
by Webmaster | Feb 20, 2025 | Hard-Easy System
The Hard-Easy System is the most effective system for training endurance athletes. Of course, no system can describe the training process completely because systems reflect a collection of ideas, rather than the training reality. In the final analysis, the efficacy of...
by Webmaster | Feb 19, 2025 | Hard-Easy System
The Hard-Easy System (HES) is especially useful in addressing how to exert optimal workout efforts. The solution is the Holy Grail of endurance training. When I began writing How to Read Your Body in 1985, I knew that a workout was essentially effort and energy. Thus,...
by Webmaster | Feb 18, 2025 | Hard-Easy System
In my opinion, the most difficult training problem occurs whenever one attempts to establish a new workout regimen. It’s a process of progressive adaptation that terminates a set of workouts that no longer build ability while substituting a new set which will build...
