Running to Think

I'm gonna skip week 02, for the reasons I explained in a previous post. I deliberately planned for a break between two intense training blocks. Anyway my body anticipated me with a stressed posterior tibial tendon that needed to be fixed any time soon. Week 02 has been dedicated to resting, specifically active resting which consisted of...

The week that follows an injury does not belong to the category of memorable days. I usually start eating, I feel a bit depressed, my day suddenly becomes longer than a year and I start liking people less. In return they seem to like me less too.This is the moment when I start talking to very few and close friends about my mood and the status...

Hello folks! I remember the days when I was running like crazy as they were last week. Wait, it *was* last week!! Well, here I am, dealing with the first injury of 2014, even though whatever happens in my life is pretty much the first of the year, for the obvious reasons. The day I was kind of pushing myself to the limits, coming from a 31 km...

There's nothing better than starting the year by writing about week #1. An interesting thing I noticed on the training calendar is that by counting weeks from monday to sunday, rather than by date, week 1 is right in between 2013 and 2014. From Monday 30th December 2013 to Sunday 5th January 2014 I have been reducing the mileage a lot with respect...

Waiting for the post-workout dinner to be ready can be even more painful than the workout itself, interval training included. One relatively fast way I found to kill time and to stay healthy is making things rather than buying them. Humus is one such thing I am used to prepare before dinner. Sometimes I feel satisfied just with some...