Category Archives: Training

Training posts

Is it hard to run easy?

Yes. It’s hard to run easy enough when you’re fit and not running 100+ miles a week, which is the level many high school and collegiate runners will find themselves in the summer months. You’re fit and you often feel … Continue reading

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Speed Development, Running Times – Part 1

This article is something I’m quite proud of, an article on Speed Development, that I was fortunate to be able to write for Running Times magazine. The article lays out three different elements of a speed development workout as a … Continue reading

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Lunge Matrix as Warm-Up

This warm-up is based on Physical Therapist Gary Gray‘s Lunge Matrix. Personally, I do this before every run, i.e. I get out of a car or walk outside our house to the alley and I do the lunge matrix. No … Continue reading

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A bit of moonlighting

I thought I might as well share this LetsRun thread and this comment on Vern’s blog. New post tomorrow.

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Wrong and Right – Part 1

On Friday evening an athlete I work with, Brent Vaughn, ran a nice race at the 2010 Mt. Sac Relays. The next morning Brent, Dr. Richey and I ran a bit in sunny orange county. At one point during the … Continue reading

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The best book for High School Coaches

“You can have twenty years of coaching experience or you can have one year of coaching experience twenty times.”- Joe Vigil I want to discuss something from the Iowa Track and Field clinic that I thought about traveling while home.  … Continue reading

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Specific vs. General

I’m blessed that I’ve had a phone conversations and several email exchanges with someone who I believe is one of the best coaches in our country, Vern Gambetta. I asked Vern to comment on Specific vs. General training and the … Continue reading

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When will injuries likely occur?

In USATF coaching education a graph is presented that shows volume and intensity that is similar to the graph below (from the American Journal of Sports Medicine). I’m not sharing this graph to start a discussion about the graph itself … Continue reading

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