Time for me to nerd out for a sec, guys. I was listening to an old podcast from the Marathon Training Academy where they interviewed Dr. Jeff Brown, author of The Runner’s Brain. In the episode, he addresses my old college psychology class days when he speaks about cognitive
With exactly three weeks to go until race day, we have entered one of my least favorite parts about training: the taper. The point of marathon tapering, or any tapering in general, is to give the body rest and reduce the fatigue of training in order to be at peak
This week I learned why you need to experience bad runs. On Monday, I was supposed to do a tempo run- 10 miles with 6 at half marathon pace. My most recent half marathon was a 6:50 pace, so I thought, “Ok no problem, it’ll be 2 easy warm-up miles,
