A tasty table is always a great start Blueberry, Ginger, Cashew Rice Cakes Baked Rice Balls: Ham Bacon Pineapple and Sweet Potato Bacon (from Feed Zone Portables) Hard Boiled Eggs Roasted Potatoes rolled in parmesan and salt Baked Eggs with bacon and cheese All of this portions and packs well for ride, run or hike. […]
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Running Cool Down
Categories: Fitness and Strength Exercises, Fleet Feet Training Groups, Running Resources, Training Program Coaches
Tightening up after a run is normal. A muscle that has no input from your nervous system is completely flaccid (this is what happens with paralysis). Running requires the body to become an efficient spring. To achieve this, the nervous system (brain) creates increased tension and set points in the muscles used for running. This […]
Running Gyroscopes: Finding Your Line
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Cycling Resources, Running Resources
Going off road can be a refreshing and exhilarating experience, but it also challenging. In a previous post and the Endurance Magazine August 2016 Off Road issue we talked about the importance of being able to find and follow the line of the trails. In this article we explore finding the central line of your […]
Finding Your Line: On Trails and In Life
Categories: Articles, Cycling Resources, Running Resources
There are many things that draw us off road and nourish our individual needs. Life’s lessons can be refined and practiced with clarity as we move in nature. The variability of terrain can be both a challenge and an enjoyment. The roots, rocks, sticks that look like snakes but aren’t, rocks that are actually turtles […]
CYCLING – Gyroscopes, the Key to Flowing Over the Trail
Categories: Articles, Cycling Resources
There are rare pieces of advice that are so rich they inform one for decades and become “best of” material. For my many years of mountain biking, the advice given to me almost 20 years ago by Matthew Lee remains my ‘best of’. After watching Matthew flow effortlessly away from me over rough terrain, I […]
Refining, Feeling and Using the Running Core – FF Monday Crew
Categories: Fleet Feet Training Groups, Running Resources
Fleet Feet Monday Speed Crew 17-05-22 The goal of our workout will be to clearly feel how the timing between the Hip and the Front Cross Core support and drive fluid running form. Keys to Success: This is a workout with a focus on learning. It builds on alternating hip abduction (the key to a […]
Basic Biomechanics of Running and Walking Gait
Categories: Brian Beatty's Blog, Fleet Feet Training Groups, Running Resources
Basic Biomechanics of Gait (in Running and Walking)
Fleet Feet NoBo Workout – Fundamentals
Categories: Fleet Feet Training Groups, Running Resources
Fleet Feet Full & Half Marathon Training: Track & Running Core Workout
Enjoying The Ride
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Cycling Resources
Spring is here, and for a lot of us, this season begs us to get out on the bike. There are many joys we can all find in cycling. Here are a few of mine I thought would be worth sharing.
Distance Running
Categories: Articles, Brian Beatty's Blog, Running Resources
Is there such a thing as NON-distance running? By default, doesn’t running cover distance? What really is ‘distance’ anyway? Brian muses on what it means to cover ground on two feet.