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- How many years have you been running?
- 34 years
- What is your goal race for the year?
- Everyone of my athlete's
- What is your greatest running accomplishment?
- I run for a living!
- What is your "ultimate dream" running goal?
- Global Running - one runner per household
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Coaches are always faced with choices. You can take the familiar route and do what you have always done, following the crowd and yielding to conventional wisdom. It’s easy, and there’s no risk involved—unless you consider long-term stagnation a risk.
My approach to endurance run training is a bit different. I use conventional wisdom as a starting point and proceed from there to develop innovative training programs for runners who want to turn their potential into desired results.
But my approach to training is more than just change for the sake of change. Being innovative keeps me alert and involved with the latest research and applications of scientific training principles.
For me, the goal is to develop complete athletes, ready to perform up to their potential and exceed their expectations. My approach to training has been featured in the New York Times best seller Born To Run, Men’s Health, Esquire, Men’s Journal and Ski Magazine; specific workouts have been featured on ESPN’s Cold Pizza.
As the former Director of Fitness at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, I’m a certified Functional Training Specialist, a Certified Sports Hypnotist, and hold coaching certifications from both USA Triathlon and USA Cycling.
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The Cool Impossible Effect
Posted on April 8, 2013 at 7:30pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Many people ask me what is "The Cool Impossible?" or "What does it mean?"
I like to say, "The Cool Impossible is a goal pursued by dreaming beyond fear and living beyond limits." But ultimately, The Cool Impossible is an attitude, a philosophy, a mindset, and most important, the individual affect it has on someone. And many times, this creates an outcome that is…
Continue Adventure Running For Winter
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 4:17pm 5 Comments 4 Likes
Adventure Running For Winter
Winter starts early here in The Tetons with skiers charging the backcountry by mid November. Dry trails are replaced with 2,000 vertical boot pack accents demanding you earn the fresh powder that the early morning offers up. Skiing out of bounds, carving first tracks, and making your own way down through the trees and the unknown, all for the chance of something epic, that one day that you will always remember. The chance to…
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Hi Eric,
I'm looking for the YouTube videos that use to be up involving stretching and exercises, they involved exercise balls, jumping, etc. I would like to share them with a friend but they are not in the video section anymore, or on your YouTube page. Also, I'm still getting used to it, but I dig the new site!
It works, here's where it brought me to "commment back" to your comment, "Do you like the new black and white...."
Eric,
Like everyone else you read the book, you become inspired by this real urge to barefoot run, but I only have two months left until my marathon. Would it be wise to start training barefoot for the marathon?
Thanks a lot
Wow! that is a very good shout - they seem to have some great reviews, they also seem much more suitable than my idea of wearing Huaraches! This is my first marathon - do you have any advice for: Food, and technique and training?
Thanks again man, Hero!
Bonjour Eric,
This year I will be running a 24 hour track, and need some advice on a decent running shoe - the track will be mostly grass,
Thank you
To post a review soon. I'm going to be honest. Maybe I will add pics or video.
Hi, Eric.
I don´t know if this is the right way to go about with this, but I am wondering what to do, so I´ll ask you here:
I took up running after a few years off last year and started running in Lunas, and in october I ran a 27 km trail race in Vibrams.
This year I would like to train more systematically and maybe try a 60km trail race in september. I love running in Lunas, actually I haven`t wore normal running shoes since last year, and I love running, especially the long runs.
My question to you is: What is the benefit from following one of your training plans instead of using something that I can find on the web, and which program do you suggest for me?
I am happy for any answer from you.
Cheers, Øystein Lorentzen, Kristiansand, Norway
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