Welcome to The Senior Runner!
The Senior Runner aims to provide runners age 60 and over with:
- Current knowledge about the aging process and how that impacts senior runners
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Tips for maintaining/building a strong running foundation for the long haul
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Ideas for setting realistic goals and related training plans
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Both preventing and recovering from acute or chronic injuries
Introducing:
The Senior Distance Running Essentials Series
The Senior Runner (TSR) is a resource for those age 60 and older who are both able and continue to be motivated to run. Accepting that we are slowing down with age can be hard. Nevertheless, running can and should serve as an anchor, a dependable activity to look forward to and a means to attain and maintain good health. That is what TSR is about and in particular Senior Distance Running Essentials, a comprehensive presentation about senior running comprised of 14 chapters housed on a separate page of this site. Please check it out!
Recent Blog Posts
Running and the 80/20 Principle
In 1997, Richard Koch wrote a book The 80/20 Principle. The gist of it is that 80% of the results in many endeavors come from 20% of the effort. Koch did not create this concept: the Pareto Principal, as it subsequently became known as, was borne out of research published by Vilfredo Pareto in 1896. Nevertheless, this concept picked […]
Curiosity
We can probably come up with various reasons why we run. Common ones include numerous health benefits, which could bore someone to tears if we go on too long!, the friends and social contacts we make through our running, meeting the challenges of attaining particular race times, age-grading percentages, placing in the regional race series, or […]
Time Allocation
Over the years, I have found two hours a day, on average, has been a reasonable amount of time to set aside for exercise. As a runner (admittedly, I am pretty much a one-trick pony!) that includes warm-up, cool down, strength training, form drills, stretching and non-running aerobic exercise, which I call running equivalents, or REQs. This, […]
Recovery Redux
Injury keeps us on our toes. Or off of them! Regardless, we can never be sure when it will happen. Injury can come quickly, such as twisting an ankle in a pothole. Or it may be building slowly. For those, we may have a notion of what triggered it, but don’t know for sure. What we do know is if we don’t […]
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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