Healthy Mind Heart Body

Category: running

  • Dean Karnazes’ Secrets and Strategies for Recovery

    Rest Days – Never! Tapering – Don’t do it! Hard/Easy Training Days – Listen to your body! Recovery – Active recovery is extremely important! Keep moving after races. Swim! Crosstraining – Swimming and mountain biking. Protein – Protein is good for endurance athletes. whey protein – post workout green pea protein soy protein Fage plain…

  • Ultra Marathon Man by Dean Karnazes

    Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner By: Dean Karnazes “The cross-country guys hung out in late-night coffee shops and read books by Kafka and Kerouac. They rarely talked about running; it was just something they did.” “Disillusioned with the trappings of the corporate scene, the things that really mattered – friendship and exploration,…

  • Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?

  • Turf Toe

    I recently sprained my big toe from barefoot Ultimate Frisbee. I should not have assumed that an ability to barefoot run for 40 minutes corresponded to being able to perform the side-to-side, twisting, and rapid acceleration and deceleration involved in Ultimate Frisbee for a full hour. Luckily, while I had to stay in Saturday night…

  • Tarahumara: Legendary Native Runners of Mexico

    This rare video contains footage from the 1960s and 1930s of the Tarahumara playing their running game. The majority of the video is a documentary footage of a small Tarahumara “community in the transitional zone between the Sierra upland country and the deep canyons to the South.”

  • Scenes from Christopher McDougall’s Born To Run

    Born To Run by Christopher McDougall is easily my favorite book. I’m ecstatic to have stumbled upon this YouTube video of people and places from the book. It was a lot of fun watching and comparing faces and landscapes to what I’d envisioned. This may be a bit of a spoiler for anyone planning on…