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
Change of Plans
It was Wednesday before the Champlain Islands Half Marathon. I had done a 12 miler the week before and was tapering, running easy four-mile runs. I began sneezing and coughing that evening and sleeping was on and off. On Thursday, things worsened with the coughing and sneezing constant. I worked from home, didn’t have a fever but felt […]
Changing Seasons
October has arrived and in Vermont that means leaf peeping. We see plates from many states on the backroads, going slow, and then slowing down! It’s a short window, maybe just two to three weeks depending on where you are in the state. October also means a change in running conditions. It’s 7 a.m. before getting light […]
Learning As We Go
It’s important as we age, to be open to what works best. Of course this has been the case from day 1. But age has a way of reducing our choices, which seems to make each choice that much more important. For some years I have approached races with what might be called a “modified […]
The Way Back
I ran the North Shore Grand Prix 8K last Sunday, five weeks and a day after breaking my little toe. The prior two August blog posts covered this mishap and initial recovery. I had expected a tough race, having missed nearly three weeks of serious training, leaving just two weeks to ramp up. I could […]
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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