Category: Coaching
Sage Advice: Bridging the Gap
This question comes from Tracy. I found your training program for the half marathon on the Athleta website and I was interested in trying it because I liked that it combined my two favorite workouts, yoga and running. I have been running for a little over two years now and after having used your program,…
Sage Advice: The Warm-Up
My athlete Donnie has found his niche in mud runs, which let him use his whole-body strength from years of work with an elite trainer and his somewhat newfound running endurance and growing speed. After his most recent race, he asked this good question: One thing I’m wondering about is proper amount of warmup for…
Sage Advice: R+R
I have a healthy stack of questions building up in my e-mail inbox, things readers and athletes have asked me. Thinking the answers might apply more generally, I’ll be posting them here in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, please see my Q+A over at Another Mother Runner, Sarah Bowen Shea and Dimity McDowell’s fantastic site…
Training for the Krispy Kreme Challenge
Three of my athletes are training through the Krispy Kreme Challenge, en route to bigger events, including Ironman South Africa and a six-hour mountain bike relay. This is good, as they can afford the calories (2,400 of them!), and their training for their target races will even be served by running nauseated, as coping with…
Thoughts on Plantar Fasciitis
Last week, Gina Kolata had an interesting piece on orthotics in the New York Times. After I tweeted on my own experience moving away from orthotics, I had a number of enquiries from students and friends who’ve suffered from plantar fasciitis (PF) asking my thoughts on them. Now, remember: I’m a doctor of philosophy (worse still,…
Functional Core Sequence
What a nice group joined me yesterday at Carrboro Yoga for a core-strength workshop! Our theme was finding mountain pose, the neutral and stable alignment of the pelvis and the spine, and holding that even as our arms and legs were moving and our orientation to gravity shifted. As I promised the students, I’m posting…
Seminar on Multisport Training
Join me and some other great area speakers for this two-day clinic, which offers five or ten CEUs for USA Triathlon coaches, and which will be very useful for athletes, too! —Sage Multi-Part Seminar for the Multi Sport Coach and Athlete November 20–21, 20101:00 PM – 6:00 PM5 or 10 USAT CEU Credit CourseHuman Performance…
Enhancing Recovery—When You Need It
Age Group Nationals for USA Triathlon will be held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at the end of September. For many athletes, this is the A race of the year—the big one. Whether it’s your big one or just another weekend in your racing calendar, you’ll need to focus on recovering well after the event. I’ll be…
Recovery Webinar
Tuesday, August 17, I’ll be leading a webinar on my new pet passion, recovery. There’ll be CEUs offered for USA Triathlon coaches, but the content will be useful for all athletes—not just endurance athletes. Those who attend the live webinar can ask questions. If you can’t make the time (it’s 6 p.m. EDT), you can…
Delays and Detours
“Delays and detours to my limited vision are actually the perfect path unfolding to a higher eye.” —Julia Cameron I came across that epigraph earlier this week in a funny little book called Blessings, by Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way. While I liked it enough to post it to my Twitter feed, little…
Consistency and Variety
Last night I gave a presentation to Team UNC Wellness, our local multisport club, on training for the run. As we head into our North American off-season, it’s a good time to move focus to running. Weather often precludes more than maintenance riding, and that’s OK, because bike fitness comes around pretty quickly in the…
Plan the Work, Work the Plan
It was deeply satisfying to track my coaching client Stacey G. as she ran the Boston Marathon yesterday. Stacey, a former division 1-A collegiate track runner, hired me to train her for this race after she’d been plagued with overuse injuries in her previous marathon training. Her plan involved a lot of focused running complemented…