Have a focus

Keeping it simple, it can make or break a running program. With the dizzying amounts of information available today your training can quickly become a jumbled mess of fartleks, strides, tempo, and a mix of VO2max leading you down the road to exhaustion and possibly injury. All of which will get in the way of your fitness potential

You can start “Keeping it Simple” by establishing a focus for each of your training sessions. Your long runs should focus on endurance and mid week run should be utilized to tweak your running style (this is where things can quickly go wrong). As an example of “Keeping it Simple”, I recently scheduled as easy run and I decided that my goal for the run would be to work on my form. I have a very bad habit of crossing my arms in front of my body when I run. This is terribly inefficient and over the duration of a marathon, it easily wipes away precious minutes from my time; therefore, I decided to focus on utilizing proper arm swing during my run. The result is that I met my goals of running at an easy pace and working on proper form; hopefully, improving arm swing. Goal achieved!

At first glance this method of goal setting may seem inefficient but as you experiment with this process you will find that by having a single focus per training session, many of the other aspects of your running may just fall into place. As you cross the finish line of your next race, the crowd cheering your every step, you will have the pride in knowing that you met your goals and the sweet smell of success will have others pushing you towards the shower.

Sometimes in victory, comes defeat.

– Someone incredibly famous

Interview with Bob Schwartz author of I Run, Therefore I am Nuts!

Interview with Bob Schwartz author of I Run, Therefore I am Nuts!