Good runs/bad runs By Susan Stetson, Sometimes it clicks, and sometimes it doesn’t! If you have been running for any length of time at all, you’ve had good workouts and bad ones.Well, I had my first really bad workout one night this week. It was awful,...
Athletes’ performances a result of volunteer coaches’ efforts By Jeanne O’Kon Imagine spending four evenings a week, after a full day at the office, working with a group of 60-80 children of all ages. Visualize yourself figuring out how to enhance the physical...
Bare Bottom Run By Dana Stetson Every now and then, a new race comes along and is produced so well, and with so much zest, that it becomes more than another race. It becomes a festival. Jane Johnson’s Bare Bottom 5k held at Porter Sink on Lake Jackson last Saturday...
It’ll always get better…or worse By Gary Griffin “It’ll always get better.” These words, spoken to me by a veteran distance runner minutes before my first ultramarathon in 1991, could be dubbed “The Ultrarunner’s Creed.”...
Consistency the key to running success Fred Deckert If necessity is the mother of invention, then consistency has to be the mother of success. I’m reminded of this every time I see someone start an exercise program and quit after a week or two. Unfortunately...
Run to eat or eat to run? By Dana Stetson It’s been a long time since I have been really injured. I don’t mean minor nagging stuff that can be easily ignored when necessary. I’m talking about a full-scale category 4 injury. This is the kind of injury...
