All competitive runners want to run further and faster. And we want to do it now, not in six months, a year, or even longer. Yet, one of the truths of running is you can only run as fast and as far as the condition you are in today. I…

I realized the other day that I have been running for 50 years. I started running when I was 14. I was playing junior high football and in our first practice, our coach had us do a mile run. I was one of the slower players on the team so…

The long-run is the key workout in a marathon training plan. Most training plans have runners doing a long run each week until they reach between 20 and 22 miles or so. …

I recently turned 64, and admonishments by Paul McCartney not withstanding, I am not ready to retire from competitive running and tend the garden. I still want to compete with the best in my age group.

In order to compete I need to train hard. However, I am older and…

In running, the training is often what gets to you before the race you are training for. It took me three training blocks before I was able to get to the starting line for my first marathon. The primary reason for that was because I was not focused on getting…

Brad Stulberg recently published a book titled The Practice of Groundedness, and as the title suggests, it is about the principles of being a grounded person. …

In my last article I covered how to declare variables and how to assign values to variables. To cement this knowledge, the programming student needs to learn how to read code that declares variables and assigns data to them, how to write code that declares variables and assigns data to…

There are almost as many marathon training plans as there are marathon runners. Almost every one of them emphasizes a long run each week that grows in length from 10 to 20 miles. …