Advice & Philosophy

For most of my life, like most people, I was an onlooking on the world of running.  From where I was looking, and my little experience inside the world, it was terrible.  It was a painful, exhausting, tedious thing that was really just there to talk negatively about – all …

Before my hernia surgery this summer, I was extremely good about cheating only one day a week.  I went ‘off the wagon’ during my recovery, and had things like fruit and bread for a couple of weeks.  Since then, I’ve kept fruit in my diet (not much, but at least …

Q: When you were in the best shape of your life? A: Interesting question, and one that I almost answered before the truth behind it all struck me.  I just had a birthday (yesterday, actually), which is when this question came up.  That’s because the past year (when I was 33) …

Ah, the “Staycation”.  It’s how Americans spend time off all too often.  See, we have it all wrong.  I work for a European company, and those guys take 2 weeks off and go rent a villa in Portugal or something.  Me, I take a day or half day here or …

Q: Do you do life coaching in addition to the fitness and health coaching you do? A: That’s a great question that really deserves a deeper response than a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’. The coaching I do isn’t the same as the coaching you’d get in high school or college if you …

My wife shared a great book with me about how you can heal your life.  It’s titled, oddly enough, You Can Heal Your Life, by Louise Hay.  It’s really brilliant.  You might be skeptical of these things, but I promise you, read a bit, and you’ll be hooked.  Amazon has a …

Visualization (or ‘visualisation’ for my UK-English-speaking friends) has long been a tool of athletes around the world to perform better.  I’ve read a lot about it as I enlightened my body, but have also had much experience playing with it myself.  I’ve started using it a wider range of settings, …

We put frames on things we treasure.  Photos of loved ones, diplomas we worked hard (hopefully) to earn. Pictures of our kid’s footprints. Our wedding invitations.  The list goes on.  But we actually frame everything in our life every day.  Framing is the act of putting context and boundaries, if …

I struggled with calling this post “Collateral Damage of Running Outside”, but I’m trying to take a positive view on it lead to framing this as benefits.  And that is a fair characterization rather than just trying to be all smiley and rainbows about pain. What’s the beneficial damage?  Blisters.  …

Q: Why am I always tired; fall asleep really early, but wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep; feel run down and achy all the time? I can’t start working out and stuff if I feel this way. A: This is something I hear quite a …