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
Out Front
Last Sunday I was one of the lead bikes in the Vermont City Marathon. Two of us started ahead of the lead runners and behind a motorcycle. After a couple miles the lead pack split with the eventual winner pulling away. The other biker went with him. I then led the chase pack of eight runners that winnowed […]
Ramblin’ On
I ran the James Joyce Ramble 10K in Dedham MA today, the 40th running of this race. I have done it 12 or 13 times. The course is fair but challenging with a four-mile loop bookended by a one-mile out and back at the start/finish. What makes this event rather unique is that the founder, Martin Hanley, is a […]
78 and Counting
They just keep coming – those birthdays. Maybe when we were 8, 16, or even 21, we couldn’t wait until the next one. No longer. Now we want them to stop. Of course, we have no control over that. All that I can do is make the best use of the time given. Looking at the last […]
I Walked
It’s been some years since I’ve considered myself a hill runner. The same hills in races I do have become increasingly hard. And this has morphed into a mental block. I go to sleep the night before dreading the hills I will be running in the morning. Last Saturday I ran the hilly Frank Nealon 15K (a.k.a. […]
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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