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By Coach Alison Steiner Miller Cortisol is a beautiful thing. It’s your body’s main stress hormone that, along with adrenaline, creates the fight-or-flight reaction during times of panic. This reaction includes increased blood pressure and breathing rate, a narrowed focus in your brain on the here and now (thus decreasing your memory function), deprioritizing other[…]
By Dr. JoAnne Bullard Sleep is a significant component of any athlete’s training program, but it is often the one aspect that doesn’t receive the proper attention it deserves. When thinking of areas to expand the hours in the day, many allow their sleep to be compromised to work longer, accomplish other tasks, or wake[…]
By Coach Maria Simone It was July 2016, and I wasn’t feeling right. I had just finished a 100-mile race, but it felt awful (well, more horrible than it usually does). Most of my training leading into that race was subpar as well. I experienced months of extreme fatigue, so bad that I was falling[…]
By Coach Lindsay Leigh Adding yoga to our routine allows us to reap many benefits, such as greater mobility, flexibility, mobility, concentration, body awareness, mindfulness, and stress relief. There are different types of yoga classes, from Yin-based yoga, which features long holds and is recovery-focused, to flow-based classes, which take you through proper warm-ups (usually[…]
You’ve worked hard during the run or triathlon season, and now you are ready to play hard. It’s finally off-season. Good. It’s important to have a break from focused training and racing. But, don’t let the next few weeks or months go by without reflecting on the ways in which you can prepare yourself for an[…]
By Coach Maria Simone Back in 2008, I ran my first ultramarathon, the PHUNT 50k in Elkton, MD, only to wake the next morning to a sharp pain along the outside of my knee, and at the base of my hip joint. The pain made it impossible to run. Following seven weeks of no running,[…]
This is the second in a two-part series focusing on tapering and recovery. In part one, we discussed the basics of tapering, which is a specific type of recovery. In this post, we will talk more generally about recovery strategies for day-to-day training and racing, as well as the various stressors of life, such as[…]
