Mindful Running & Lessons to be learned from Evolutionary Biology
5 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / December 8, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On Marathoning, Oz on Injuries, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running Mind Had a lengthy, informative, and enlightening phone conversation with Dan Lieberman, from Harvard’s Department of Evolutionary Biology. We weren’t able to link schedules for a run. For both of us family and friends came first during this Thanksgiving holiday in Boston. So the phone had to do.
After speaking with Dan I am excited [...]
30 Years of Rolfing & Lessons in Mindfulness
3 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / December 6, 2009 / Posted in Injury Prevention, Mindful Running, Oz on Injuries, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running Mind“If you can imagine how it feels to have a fluid, light, balanced body, free of pain, stiffness and at ease with itself and earth’s gravitational field, then you will understand the goals of Structural Integration.”
– Ida P. Rolf Ph.D.
Jim Haselmaier wrote me inquiring about Rolfing as he had been a Rolfer at a party [...]
Run Softly Over Hard Surfaces & Train on Uneven Terrain
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / November 2, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On Marathoning, Oz on Injuries, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running Mind, UncategorizedTara Parker-Pope wrote an interesting article this week in the New York Times Well Blog: The Human Body Is Built for Distance. She talks about Christopher McDougall’s book on the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon: Born to Run. What follows are some of my reflections made years ago as I championed and continue [...]
Nipples, Bloody Nipples
3 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / January 27, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz on InjuriesOrganization: Int’l Assn of Marathoners
In article <32F70659.6CCE@dynamite.com.au>, Brian Fredrickson
<fredbr@dynamite.com.au> wrote:
> Vincent Woolf wrote:
> > First, I should thank the helpful posters here on rec.running. Though I
> > haven’t posted questions before, I’ve found advice here that has helped me
> > fight off the evil shin splints (stretching, better shoes, and no more [...]
Kicking yourself in the shin?
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 27, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz on InjuriesRobert.J.Racusin@dartmouth.edu (Robert J. Racusin) wrote:
> When I run, I noticed that my foot often hits the opposite shin,
> leaving smears of mud or dirt or even bruises. I have heard that this
> is a sign of being out of shape. Is that true, or is it just something
> in my stride? [...]
Improper Stretching, A Waste Of Mind
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 27, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz on InjuriesDate: 17 Feb 1998 03:25:48 GMT
Organization: Int’l Association of Marathoners
HI Ozzie,
I posted this last week but my news reader doesn’t seem to get all messages at times and I’m left wondering who said what in the missing holes. A weight bearing muscle cannot stretch…just another morsel for thought. Ozzie, you really got me thinking about [...]
