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Successful Running on the Go

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Runnin' The Streets   Oct 16th 2012, 4:11pm
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Keep on top of the little things. They add up to big things.

Tid bits to help you runners get the extra edge:

While travelling, I have picked up on good habits from other runners, and, more noticeably, neglected some of my old good habits that seem to get lost in the shuffle of travelling. From personal experience, here’s my list of extras (in order of importance) that runners can do to improve.

1.     Massage! Find a good massage therapist. They are hard to come by. Find someone who understands the sport and a bit of kinesiology so they don’t just solve a symptom, but solve a problem.

Nathan Daggett from Portland, Oregon is new on the scene, but he is a great person and better massage therapist. He’s only been in the game for a year or two, but, because he is passionate about athletic massage, he is my go to person in the northwest region of the US.

Marcus Hille out of Boulder, Colorado is great as well. He is one of the best at understanding the body as a whole and creating a whole program of exercises and massage therapy to keep athlete-bodies in working order.

Isiah Coles is from the D.C area. He has an athletic training background so he is great at not only getting you on your feet, but helping you stay there with different exercises that help balance and improve the kinesthetic chain.

2.     Stretching. I don’t mean the touch-your-toes-before-you-run stretching, but the active I-actually-want-to-get-more-flexible stretching. I personally hate this due to my inflexibility. For the past 2 years I have found a way to trick myself into stretching. Yoga. My yoga instructor at the Glowing Body in Knoxville, Jen Coffin, has really advanced my running career more than she knows. I get to devote an hour and a half twice a week to stretching and core with a mental break. Yoga helps put me in the moment, and as runners (with our life dictated by time), we seem to always live in the future. It’s win win. I don’t feel like it is related to track, so it doesn’t feel like practice, but yet I get the core and flexibility work that help my running anyway. Plus, the run/yoga/brunch combo on Saturday mornings is the best ritual ever. Side note—on the road trip, I got to team up with YOGAVIBES! I can stream yoga online, so if I have service, I have yoga. AND Jen is on of the instructors. I will be doing some yoga under the trees in New Orleans this afternoon.

3.     Core. I hate core more than stretching, but it does help. Not the vanity core that micro-crunches give you, but that deep psoas core exercises that leg raises and yoga give you.  When my core is strong, I can lift heavier and my stride at top end speed feels easier and more fluid. I actually don’t do much core. I count Yoga and rock climbing as core.

 4.     Strides. For the non-runners, strides are 15-20 second semi-quick bursts usually done after a run or before a workout to get your legs firing. I know, they kind of suck before you do them, but as Nike says, Just do it!  They make you feel better as you go. They help with the neuromuscular work and keep those much much much needed (and sometimes neglected) fast twitch muscles in order. They also help you stretch out your legs and feel the fluidity of running.

5.     Recovery protein shakes (and I’m sure other supplements). I prefer 2-1-1 as recommended by Eddie from Eddie’s health shoppe. I use it after every hard workout, specifically when I run and know I will not have a chance to get food within the hour. I can’t tell a difference daily (except in rounds), but I can tell a difference in my overall ability to handle workouts during the season.

-Phoebz
PS. Let us know if you have any other tid bits that you find helpful to your running! Or if you want more suggestions from our not-on-the-road training 


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