At the gym, I often have new clients approach me with trepidation. I partially blame Jillian Michaels: as much as I love her...enthusiasm? Can we call it that? Let's call it that. As much as I love her enthusiasm, she has given personal trainers the reputation for an in your face approach, guilting clients into exercise, often times making them cry, and yelling. So much yelling. Therefore, Continue reading →
11 Weeks to the Barkley Fall Classic: Training Week Two Recap
After a few weeks of solid content output, it's been a quiet week here at Relentless Forward Commotion. Yet here at RFC headquarters (that's fancy blog talk for "my apartment") it's been anything but quiet. The "commotion" part of this blog aptly applies to the past week. I'm trying to focus on training as my constant during some times of uncertainty, holiday weeks, and 90+ degree temps. So Continue reading →
12 Weeks to the Barkley Fall Classic: Training Week One Recap
If you've been around here long enough, you know that my race training and racing strategy is far from traditional. I run because I love to run. I race because I love the atmosphere and the challenge. I try to stay in shape for any given race at any given time in my life. Though I often get competitive in the heat of the moment, I am anything but invested in my ultrasignup.com rankings. I Continue reading →
4 Ways to Avoid Marathon Training Weight Gain
Marathon training weight gain is essentially the college "Freshman 15" of the running world. Almost every run has heard of it, some fear it, and some succumb to it. Frequently, runners training to complete a 26.2 mile race pack on a few…or sometimes even a little more than a few…pounds during their training cycle. The rumored weight gain is so fear-inducing that many people avoid signing up for a Continue reading →
8 Core Strengthening Exercises for Trail Runners (No Equipment Necessary)
In the running world, I often joke that strength training is akin to flossing your teeth: everyone knows that you need to do it, but not everyone takes the time out of their day to actually do it. Instead, you put it off time and time again, convincing yourself that brushing (running) is enough. Until one day your dentist says "Have you been regularly flossing?" and you sheepishly nod your head Continue reading →
5 Ways to Combat The Post Race Blues
Recently, a phone call conversation with a client revealed that one of her more pressing concerns about her upcoming 100 mile ultra wasn't necessarily finishing the ultra, but the potential onset of the post race blues. While I've never had a client say this was a concern before the race even happened, I can't say that I blame her. The post race blues are very real, and actually very Continue reading →
‘Till Lactate Threshold Levels Do Us Part
When I decided a few weeks ago that I was ready to start running again, I simultaneously decided to hand over full control of my training (and all of the planning and stressing that goes with it) to someone else. But not just anyone. I've trained as an athlete under running coaches in the past, and both times, it didn't quite work out for me. Not at any fault of the coach mind you ("It's Continue reading →
6 Useless Tips for Running with Seasonal Allergies
In order to talk about running with seasonal allergies, we've got to talk about what causes the allergies in the first place. In my case, and in the case of this written-out-of-total-frustration-and-lack-of-oxygen blog post, it's the trees. Trees truly are one of the most important things on this green planet. Simply put: without their life giving oxygen, we wouldn't exist. And I'm convinced Continue reading →
Training for Desert Rats: How to Succeed at the Kokopelli 150 Stage Race
Training for Desert Rats Kokopelli 150 multi day foot race is no small feat. Mainly because the act of running the Desert Rats is also no small feat: 6 days of extreme heat, dry desert conditions, climbing, and back to back days of running high (even ultra marathon) mileage. For some, this may sound like a miserable time. For adventurers and endurance thrill seekers, it sounds like a dream Continue reading →
Gemini Adventures Desert Rats Stage Race- Take Two
Desert Rats Stage Race. Sound familiar? It should. If I had a dollar for every event I declared on this blog I was going to do, but ended up NOT doing for a myriad of reasons, I would have enough money to buy myself a registration to yet another event I may or may not do. Hey, what can I say: I dream big. Kind of like that saying "her eyes were bigger than her stomach" when you order far more Continue reading →
6 Simple Post Run Stretches
There are a number of quips and short stories that truly stand out in my mind from my time in college as an exercise science student, beyond of course, the "important" knowledge that all of my clients hope I've retained (rest assured, I have). One of those stories came from a biomechanics teacher, who told us he had once witnessed a physical altercation at an exercise science convention. That's Continue reading →
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