Mar 20
I was reading through my April 2013 Issue of Triathlete Magazine the other day and came across an article about running form named “Run Like Pete.” As a disciple and practitioner of the Chirunning method, I was pretty eager to read the article. The article was written by Aaron Hersh and it outlined 3 …
Feb 03
Well vacation came to an end and the first week of training is complete. Coach Scott has been engaged and the training plans are flowing. It is always a bit of a adjustment the first week or so with a good training plan since it is usually a little less volume than what I had …
Nov 30
The off-season tune-ups seem to be the order of the day lately. Last week was my bike fitting and this week is a running tune-up. One of the Chirunning instructors from our workshop at Kripalu in 2009, Ann Margaret McKillop, had read my previous post about analyzing my form. She emailed me and said that …
Nov 01
The IT Band issue in my left leg, which started after my last tri of the season Ironman Muskoka 70.3, has been ebbing and flowing throughout the last 7 weeks of training leading up to my first my marathon. Some days I could run 18 miles with not a lot of pain, but other days …
Oct 03
I am finally settling into some consistent marathon training after some post-half Ironman recovery. The Ironman Muskoka 70.3 run course left me with a very sore and inflamed IT Band and running a 9 miler the week after the race was not the brightest of moves. The hilly course and the camber of the road …
Jul 10
http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://brianschwind.net/wpblog/?p=121 This year has been a bit of a metamorphosis for me regarding my running. As I mentioned before, I had never thought of myself as a “runner” even though I have attempted this many times throughout my life. The IT Band issues I incurred around 10 years ago I thought sealed the deal on …
