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 [...]
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 [...]
Better Running Through Walking & My Biased Reflections
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / June 2, 2009 / Posted in Injury Prevention, Mindful Running, Oz On Marathoning, Psyching Series, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running MindMarathoning is about mindful movement. The article Better Running Through Walking in the New York Times gives some helpful hints and testimonials to the run/walk approach championed by Jeff Galloway for many a year.
Over the next 5 months as Tara Parker-Pope prepares for the New York City Marathon on November 1st, there will be [...]
Training the Mindful Marathoner
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 27, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On MarathoningThe Week Before/The Month After
The Marathoner’s Body is 70% Water
Train yourself during the week before the marathon to continue to hydrate so your urine is clear. Remember it takes 3 grams of water to store one gram of glycogen. You can carboload but the folklore is that unless you continue to drink fluids, you can [...]
The Ramblings of a Marathon Training Run
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 27, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On MarathoningA Marathoner’s Stream of Conscious
To me, it’s always been a time when I get to see how close my thinking and doing are in harmony. The marathon has continually afforded me the opportunity to see how long I can stay in the present. I get to see how I did on that day, in that [...]
My First and Last Flip Off While Running
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 27, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On MarathoningFirst Sunday In February , 1975
Las Vegas, elevation http:2001 ft (610 m)
Mile 25
First Marathon
Hit the wall at mile 11.
Three weeks before, I completed the Mission Bay Half Marathon. I knew nothing about marathoning except Tad Kostrubala, my mentor and author of Joy of Running, told me that I was ready to do a marathon. In [...]
Words To Guide Marathoners
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 26, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On MarathoningIn article <691nfd$4qr$1@newsd-163.iap.bryant.webtv.net>, Texcanuk@webtv.net (Debbie Kendrick) wrote:
> Most people think of getting blisters on their heals from running. I get
> them on my 2nd and 4th toes. Huge ones. I wear the socks that are
> supposed to prevent blisters and my shoes are big enough (one size
> bigger than my dress shoes). Any suggestion. Marathon [...]
Phiddipides Walked
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 26, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On Marathoning© Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D.
> Steven Lavallee (lavallee@intergate.bc.ca) wrote:
> : Is it true that Galloway advocates walking breaks every mile of the
> : marathon? What’s next, lawn chair breaks served with lemonade and back
> : rubs.
> : Get with the program folks, the marathon is run, not walked. Did
> : Phidipides (sp?) stroll to Athens [...]
Accepting the Marathon Challenge
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 26, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On Marathoning© Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D.
I have always known
that at last I would take this road,
but yesterday I didn’t know that
it would be today.
Unknown
In three words
I can sum up
everything I’ve
learned about life.
It goes on.
Robert Frost
George Sheehan, God bless his soles, knew from experience that we are all called to be athletes, poets, heroes, saints and [...]
