Category: Articles
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2025 Training Camps
Come explore, train and learn in western NC Bike, Hike or Run Supported small group training runs with a focus on vert for mountain races. Comfortable and convenient lodging, camaraderie, recovery and trail education. Let us do the adventure planning while you do the running, biking, or hiking. As a group of coaches, PTs and…
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📞 New phone number!
919-525-3711 – please update your contacts!
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Introducing: Running Strength & Skills Online Workouts!
A perfect complement to our Monday morning Running Strength & Skills Class, our new online subscription program gives you access to ALL of our current and future running strength, skills, and educational programs for just $15 bucks a month!
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Finding Your Running Flow
These routines were inspired as a way to prepare for optimal performance in at a race event. Most of us could use something to smooth out the pre-race jitters, mental chatter, and taper tantrums.
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Maximizing an Event Specific Training Plan
Goal events (Marathon, Half-Marathons and Ultras of all terrains) give us focus and motivation. We create specific run training programs for the event and put in the miles in a specific and thoughtful manner. Rarely does the same focus and preparation carry over into how we prepare our bodies for, and recover from, the training…
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Musings on the Cycling Core (our new online program!)
Our goal with this program is to give bicycle riders a super clear, cycling-specific understanding about the purpose of training your core in a focused, time-efficient way. We talk about concrete goals (i.e., minimizing hips rocking on the saddle, the ability to control your upper body and hips when climbing or sprinting, so you can…
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Cramping: What Do We Know to Do?
Cramping is no fun, and the solutions are not as simple as managing hydration and electrolyte intake. Here’s an overview of what we know!
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Developing a Body Checklist
Raise your hand if you love a good checklist! The goal of the “Body Checklist” is to catch changes early and intervene. The unnoticed stiffness in the hip last weekend could be the thing that robs 45 seconds from your running pace in a couple weeks and sets up an awkward knee twist and injury…
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“Progress to Tolerance” – What is Tolerance?
The meaning of the oft-repeated phrase in the rehab world: “Progress to Tolerance”
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Running Gyroscopes: Finding Your Line
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…