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Member Profile: Lara Hackney
Lara teaches food management and food safety at the University of Hawaii, where a colleague first challenged her to run the marathon in 2024. In keeping with her cheerful and optimistic outlook on life, Lara accepted the challenge and began training with Brian, despite never thinking of herself as “marathon material.” She even returned to the training after an unexpected injury and completed her first marathon in Dec. 2025 with a fantastic time. While she plans to do the marathon again, Lara says that the real reason she keeps coming back to train is the extraordinary community she’s gained.
Understanding Fitness Walking
As a subject, fitness walking is more complex than many people realize. I’m interested in addressing the huge cohort of non-walkers who don’t know what true fitness walking means, and how it can contribute radically to their health and well-being. Avid walkers...
The Case for Fitness Walking as We Get Older
The older we get, the more we think about how little time we have. The 70- to 90-year-olds I know already have longevity. But as we enter our final 10 or 20 years, quality of life becomes an issue, especially as it affects our capacity to live independently. I’m told...
Starting a Fitness Walking Regimen
I’ve remained in business as a fitness trainer since 1979 largely because I know how to slow people down. Walkers who want to learn how to jog, for instance, incorrectly assume their jogging pace should be faster than their walking pace. But jogging requires more...
The Energy Considerations of Fitness Walking
Gauging your body’s energy is the first thing you should do when you begin a walking workout. Do you have little, some, or ample energy? The more energy you have, the more you may need to burn so you sleep well that night. In this sense, you’re in partnership with...
A Buddhist Perspective on Life
We go through life day by day, hour by hour having experiences and encountering other people. There’s nothing necessarily special to distinguish one day from another. An event occurs and we make up a story about it. The story could be happy or sad. But inevitably we...
A Moment in Time
I’m interested in exploring the moment-in-time experience. We ordinarily think of time as progressing from past to present to future. But when you think about it, past and future exist only as memory and rehearsal. Outside of mind, past and future don’t exist. What...
Making Peace with the Monkey Mind
Do you ever sit in silence and pay attention to your mind? The mind is a reality show, reflecting your past, present, and future in fascinating detail. Unprompted, it goes about its business of shedding light into every corner of your life. You needn’t do anything,...
On Being Time
Time is one of those things most of us don’t have enough of in our busy lives. We are “slammed” with so many things to do that we can’t conceive of adding more to a day. As a result, we rush through things we must do so we can do the things we want to do. We live on a...
The Zen of Faith
An acquaintance has sponsored alcoholics on their journey from addiction to sobriety for more than thirty years. She claims the second of the twelve steps is the most difficult for those who have already admitted they are powerless over alcohol. Step two says:...