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
Getting a Toehold
After 10 days of biking, water running, and wearing a surgical boot, it seemed time to test my broken toe (see July post). If I was going to run a competitive 8K in three weeks, the next Grand Prix race, I needed to put in some work. But I didn’t want to set things back either. My foot […]
How Things Can Change!
I was having breakfast, getting ready to head to the Y for water running and weights and looking at my calendar and planning out the week’s training. Rushing, I sped through the living room and banged my foot into the couch leg. Immediately, I knew something was very wrong. It’s not that I haven’t stubbed my toes […]
Rediscovery
For sometime, I’ve had on my to-do list to go through all my stuff and do some major culling. Afterall, much of what I own is of little or no interest to others and while I hope to stick around for a good while longer, why not unload some of this stuff now. This includes extra […]
The Heat is On, Then Off
This morning it was a cool, sunny sixty degrees. Perfect running weather! The type of day that showcases Vermont in the summer. It’s why people come here—to escape the big city summer heat. But the past 10 days have not been like this. Rather, it’s been hot, very hot. Most days went well above 90, even approaching 100. A few thunderstorms temporarily […]
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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