Viva Las Red Rocks!

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Escap­ing the Strip I attended the Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show (CES) for three days this past week. What an expe­ri­ence. 120,000 peo­ple (mostly men) descend upon Vegas to see the lat­est gad­gets, acces­sories, appli­ances, and much more. After a cou­ple of days of try­ing to nav­i­gate the crowds, get­ting nearly blinded by all the screens and lights, […]

Snowy Creek Trail, Yosemite

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A dream come true. For a lucky few, an 11 mile run in the moun­tains, includ­ing 6,000 feet of ele­va­tion change and a mile run­ning on snow is nor­mal. For me, this was a very sig­nif­i­cant event. It was not only the longest run of my life, but more mean­ing­ful for me, though, is that a […]

The 5 Elements of Good Barefoot Form

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A Means to an End In my mind, run­ning bare­foot is a means to an end. And that end is a bet­ter run­ning form. A form that lever­ages what I was born with, reduc­ing the risk of injury and increas­ing my over­all effi­ciency. But what exactly is a good run­ning form? And how does run­ning without […]

Intro to Barefoot Running Class

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On your mark, get set, take your shoes off! I’m excited to share that I’ll be putting on a bare­foot run­ning class at my local Cross­Fit gym Sat­ur­day, August 21. I’m thrilled to have found a coach and gym owner who get the impor­tance of bare­foot run­ning in help­ing improve run­ning form and how return­ing to […]

Let Your Body Guide You

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Photo by Chris­t­ian Hau­gen There I was, at the moment of a big deci­sion. Should I trust that I could turn my world upside down with­out injur­ing myself or lis­ten to the voice in my head and play it safe. I stood in front of the wall, oth­ers watch­ing, my mind rac­ing, weigh­ing my odds […]

Reaching High

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I like new. I like new ideas, new projects, and new years. And this year is a whole lot of new. Not only is it a new year and a new decade (numer­i­cally), but it’s also a new stage in my life: I’m return­ing to work after nearly 8 months on dis­abil­ity. I’m hop­ing I have a new lease on life, too. I have very high expec­ta­tions for this year, and decade.

Set Limits to Achieve Goals

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Set­ting lim­its and hav­ing focus is crit­i­cal in all areas of our lives, espe­cially when it comes to run­ning. Para­dox­i­cally, lim­its help us achieve our goals. They help us focus and keep us from spread­ing our­selves too thin. Instead of chas­ing numer­ous dreams, decide exactly what it is you want to achieve and then set lim­its where nec­es­sary to enable you to focus on your goals.

The Runner’s Body – Workout Sheets

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While I was train­ing for the San Fran­cisco Half Marathon ear­lier in 2009 I dis­cov­ered a four part series of videos on the Runner’s World web­site titled The Runner’s Body. The videos con­tained expla­na­tions and exam­ples of stretches and exer­cises that tar­get var­i­ous areas of the body with run­ning in mind. Being a visual learner I needed to cre­ate cheat sheets that I could glance at to help me remem­ber each exercise.

Just Make a Good Decision…and Move On

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As I ran down the trail Sat­ur­day evening on South Moun­tain out­side of Phoenix, Ari­zona, I was struck by how trail run­ning resem­bles life. In par­tic­u­lar, it was hav­ing to quickly choose where to place my foot in a split sec­ond as I danced down the rocky path and by cliffs that made me think this. As I passed over over sharp rocks and found a safer land­ing spot, I remem­bered what my life coach had explained to me the week before. “You don’t have to make the best deci­sion, just a good decision.”

Learning to Not Push Too Hard

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I went for a run last week. It was my first one in almost a week since I caught a bad cold, or pos­si­bly even the dreaded piggy flu (fever, sore throat, hack­ing cough). What­ever it was, I was com­pletely out for a few days and didn’t feel up for much of a walk or run for a few more after that. I don’t sup­pose I was nec­es­sar­ily all bet­ter the other night when I went out for a run, either.

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