Below you'll find a list of all posts from January, 2013
We’ll talk about minimal running shoes (and barefoot running) another time. When we do, we will begin with the assumption that the shoe industry has no credibility in the discussion. Why? Because the industry has descended to unimaginable depths of marketing flim-flammery. Maybe you already knew this. I suspected it, and my suspicions were confirmed this morning by a come-on …
“A race,” the young legend Steve Prefontaine informed the old legend Bill Bowerman, “is a work of art.” But I take the concept a step further: A run is a work of art. Call it grandiose, call it ridiculous, but this is where my own running and thinking have evolved. There is a way now in which each run becomes …
Well into the winter I’m finally OK with the rain. I resisted for weeks. I’d sit inside working, working, working and when I noticed the room had brightened a little – the clouds had parted, or at least thinned – I’d check the radar and if the splotches of green and yellow had vaporized into light blue or gray, I’d rush …