Cross Training

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RunnerSpacers,

I apologize for the very long delay in the Nike Spikes series that I started at the beginning of the summer. It was a crazy summer, but I'm starting up the long over due return of these videos that preview Nike's spike line-up that wi...

It was about this time last year, mid spring when the mountains are still under feet of snow and summer seems like it should be just around the corner but it’s actually still so far off that you’re trying not to think about it. Thinking abo...

I was looking through the Harvard Gazette News Archives (eh eh eh...aka surfing the internet and stumbled on) when I found an article that added supporting evidence to my theory that runners are pretty amazing (aka superior).  I know tha...

It's pissing rain outside on the eve of one of the best experiences one can have as a long distance runner. Unfortunately it hasn't been pissing enough. The WXC course, while tough, it's not all that muddy. The locals that I've been coaxing to get out ...

I hate doctors. I'm terrified of them*. Wait: I hate to go to the doctor. A dentist, I can handle: I look forward to going to the dentist for an entire week beforehand just so that I can get shiny, happy teeth. But a doctor, at best, can tell you t...

Four weeks to go... FOUR WEEKS!!! until the World Championship Cross Country race in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, Scotland. The wind, the rain, the mud, and the hills. Ahhh. True cross country, where XC was born, some would say, and where it was meant to...

So, in three weeks the US team leaves for Scotland, in four weeks we run. For glory? maybe. I hope so. We've got a talented team going. Possibly one of the strongest in recent history. Is a medal an option, well, not out of the question. Sure it will b...

Hey peoples!

The last time that I wrote, you could tell that I am in the process of getting through a pretty nagging injury which has brought my season to a standstill more or less. I have some good news to report though! I have been working on my ca...

I figured by now I probably would have kicked this thing, and by this thing I mean my IT band injury. It seems though that the more I seem to find out about it, the deeper it gets. First it went from being just the IT band, then the IT band sticking to...