by Coach Stazza | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, Training
Cock-a-doodle-do! The intoxicating scent of midnight jasmine. Somewhere, a woman cackles. The chink of a teaspoon on a china teacup. Mutterings. You stretch, yawn, and open your eyes. A shaft of sunlight pierces the window, carrying a trail of frolicking mites....
by Tawny Bybee | Aug 23, 2019 | Race Reports, Training
Tawny’s Race Report: The Hobblecreek Half is a special race for me because it was my first canyon half marathon and my second half marathon ever. The first time I ran it was in 2013. I ran a 1:24:04. It was the year I was training to break 3 hours for the first...
by Coach Stazza | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured, Inspiration, Race Reports, Training
Imagine, if you will, an alternative world—a world so hot and humid that even mosquitoes, plagiarists, and Alf Menzies can’t exist. Now, come with me, and I’ll take you to the edge of y(our) world—to a place where Irishmen can’t exist, except for, sums supremo, Mark...
by Coach Stazza | Aug 16, 2019 | Featured, Nutrition, Race Reports, Training
Last week, we finished off looking at the endurance spine and this week I’m going to cover my trips down to Cork and up to Dublin. Two of the lads I coach, Joachim The Viking and Oisín Spillane, were set to go head-to-head in the Cork City Games open 3000m. For...
by Tawny Bybee | Aug 14, 2019 | Race Reports, Training
By Jennifer Lambert “Just Be!” I usually enter a race with a mantra. But if I don’t, then one usually finds me during the race – because for me racing and running is about so much more than moving my body; it’s about freeing my mind. Since I have little time...
by Coach Stazza | Aug 9, 2019 | Featured, Training
In my previous post, we examined how one of my runners, Matthew The Chicken Slayer Maynard, had progressed in his first eight months with me—we looked at how we prepared the way for the endurance spine and higher density, high volume workouts. We also looked at how to...
