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
Norway
We returned June 22nd from two weeks in Norway. Fair to say we tried to fit in too much. Traveled to Oslo for three days, then stayed on the fjords at Leikanger for two days before traveling to Bergen for three days. This was followed by three days in Stavanger and then back to Oslo for […]
Running Science and Running-Specific Strength Training
As I was completing the bibliography for my book Staying With It, I leafed through Owen Anderson’s Running Science. I bought this book shortly after it was published in 2013 after seeing a promotion by the publisher, Human Kinetics. I have occasionally scanned it for ideas and always come away with things to incorporate in my training. It is […]
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 […]
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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