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
-
Tips for maintaining/building a strong running foundation for the long haul
-
Ideas for setting realistic goals and related training plans
-
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
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. […]
Data Collection
I was recently appointed as a Research Affiliate in the UVM Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science. The position is unpaid but enables me to fully participate with the two professors I’ve been working with on a research project comparing the biomechanics of runners over 50 and under 30 years of age. The gist of the research […]
Circle of Capacity
We’ve been in St. Augustine for the past two weeks. I’ve met and run with some folks from the Ancient City Road Runners, a club with about 300 members of varying ages and abilities. It’s amazing how runners quickly connect and develop threads of friendship. I attended their monthly club meeting at the local library where Matt Reider, […]
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
Subscribe to The Senior Runner today!