Maximum Sustainable Race Exertion

Maximum Sustainable Race Exertion

What do you think the following Hard-Easy System truism means? The way you train will be the way you race. Sparing you the hunches others have offered; it refers to the harmonious way disciplined athletes handle training and racing effort. You exert an effort whenever...
Improve Running Form to Avoid Injury

Improve Running Form to Avoid Injury

A few years ago, I studied how many steps my marathoners took per minute when running at marathon pace. The answer was 170 steps per minute, which translates to 10,000 steps per hour or forty thousand steps for a four-hour marathon. In the short term of a single...
How to Run, Jog, or Walk with Efficiency and Power

How to Run, Jog, or Walk with Efficiency and Power

In this article, I’m going to explain how to play with the motion of your body to create an efficient and powerful stride. Efficiency will enable you to sustain a racing cadence (steps per minute); power will enable you to run relaxed at race pace. Power and...
How Running Posture Increases Power and Efficiency

How Running Posture Increases Power and Efficiency

Running methodology consists of power, form, and balance. These ideas overlap with the elements of style described in previous articles. But methodology is not the same as style. Style pertains to the way you control your body to develop a powerful and efficient...
Reduce Soreness with Gentle Movement Stretching

Reduce Soreness with Gentle Movement Stretching

The fundamental mistake in stretching is thinking you will gain something from it. You might in fact have something to gain from stretching, but your thinking obscures the actual stretching experience, the clarity of which is essential to proper practice.  A gaining...