Trail Tips

The Reality of Reality

Reality is the product of all the conditions of the world in which you operate. Your plans and dreams need to be fashioned with that in mind. Painting your dreamscape without being aware of reality’s landscape will likel...

Warm up / Cool down

Warming up accomplishes two things: mobilizes fatty acids stored throughout your body to your blood stream so that you can use your fat instead of your vital blood sugar prevents cramping Flexibility is associated with w...

Heart Health: Brisk Walking vs. Running

In an article recently published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Paul Williams (a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California) and Dr. Paul Thompson (a cardi...

Acres of Diamonds

One of the most interesting Americans who lived in the 19th century was a man by the name of Russell Herman Conwell. He was born in 1843 and lived until 1925. He was a lawyer for about fifteen years until he became a cle...

Hill Running Form – by Coach Mike

Benefits of Hill training greatly strengthens lower leg muscles and quadriceps develops good rhythm that will pull your through periods of tiredness good hard workout with relatively little pounding Erect Posture keep yo...

Why Sprinting Improves Endurance

Jens Bangsbo of the University of Copenhagen has shown that if you want to run, cycle or swim faster at any distance, you have to train at a pace that is almost as fast as you can move (Journal of Applied Physiology, Nov...

Defining Confidence

Having a strong sense of confidence results from a consistent and conscious committment to attaining concise, crystal clear goals, and being confident is just about the most important thing you can be. Be really clear ab...

Positive Power

I discovered that people react positively to people who act positively. Think about it. Who wants to be around a negative person for very long? You do what you can to cheer them up, but it doesn’t take long before frustr...