After two years of Predawn Runner, it’s time to look back on some of the top posts and share some thoughts on future directions.
Patience is a rare virtue in today’s world, where society makes instant gratification so easy to achieve in so many areas of life. But it is still essential, and few activities help us build it better than running does.
I’m pleased to announce the completion of my first book. Focusing on the 2011 fall marathon season, concluding with the Towpath Marathon, Running Ahead of the Sun combines some of the content from this blog with daily training journal entries and selected comments from dailymile to portray the journey from injury to race.
The threat to our future from global warming is serious, and recent data indicates that running has become a major contributor to the atmospheric CO2 levels causing global warming.
It is through maintaining an understanding of our longer-term purpose and goals for our running that we can get through the tough times, and maintain motivation in the face of failure (or, for that matter, success).
Being injured sucks, but a big part of the recovery process is looking for opportunities to improve as a runner while you recuperate. Here are seven ways you can do so.
In the midst of a long training season, it’s not unusual to lose your running mojo. Here are 14 ways you can gain it back, including reassessing your goals and mixing up your routines.
A well-crafted manifesto can inspire not only the directly intended audience, but other readers with diverse interests. Here are six such manifestos that can motivate your training.
After featuring a number of runners highly focused on maximizing their performance through precise and hard-core workouts, this interview with Brodie Wise provides a different perspective – an alternative path to find not only enjoyment but success as a runner.
Perseverance comes from mental toughness, and this third in a series of posts on how running builds character explores how running gives us the freedom to build such toughness by taking manageable risks, where we only have ourselves to praise or blame for the results.