Gone Runnin'
Featuring the Official Guide to the 2008 Grand Rapids Marathon, the October issue celebrates all things fall, including marathons, cyclocross, and coverage of the end of the cycling season.
What's in Your Backyard?
People often ask me where I find the inspiration for these monthly columns. I usually pretend that it's easy, that sports offer endless inspiration.
If only that were true.
Sports do inspire, but sometimes you have to dig a little.
Marathon Minefields
With one week to go to the day you race your next marathon, it’s time to cut back on your training volume, rest a lot, and, for obvious reasons, not go out and get drunk. Those are the basics, which we all know. The following tips, however, will also help you avoid disaster and have a great run come race day.
Get Your Off-Road Nutrition. . . Without Falling off the Bike
Off-road nutrition is much more of a logistical mystery than a simple road triathlon, where you can use a bento box, carry a bar of some type or use gel packets. Off-road, you can’t take your hands off the bars to reach for a package, tear it open, and eat it anytime. Try doing that on a volcano in Maui, or on the twisty, winding roots of a single track trail and you’ll soon be licking fresh wounds.
