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 [...]
Marathon Psyching Series: 5. The Week Before/The Month After
1 Comment by Ozzie MR / April 28, 2007 / Posted in Psyching SeriesPost Marathon Blues are real. It’s often part of the Alexander The Great Syndrome: Now what? Knowing that it can happen to you often diminishes the problems that the depression can cause.
Folklore means if it works for you, use it. If it doesn’t, don’t give it the time of day, least of all any emotional [...]
Marathon Psyching Series: 4. What to say when talking to yourself
0 Comment by Ozzie MR / April 28, 2007 / Posted in Psyching SeriesYour Words and Images Create Your Reality
© 1998 Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D. & Int’l Assoc. of Marathoners™
Here is some sharing so that you can decrease the stress in your thinking. Already as you read this you are finding that your shoulders are relaxing and that you find it easier to take a deeper breath because [...]
Marathon Psyching Series: 3. Care & Support of Four-Hour Marathoners
0 Comment by Ozzie MR / April 28, 2007 / Posted in Psyching SeriesMarathon Psyching Series: 3. Care & Support of Four-Hour Marathoners
Marathoners, friends of Marathoners, co-workers of Marathoners,
TEAM In TRAINING, Joints In Motion, all marathoners and friends of
marathoners please pass this series on. Or save the series when you are
getting ready for your Marathon. Thanks. Ozzie
Hints for the Success of the Four Hour Marathoner (Super-Fours™)
©2000,2001 Austin “Ozzie” [...]
Marathon Psyching Series: 2. Marathoning: A Path
0 Comment by Ozzie MR / April 28, 2007 / Posted in Psyching SeriesWhile you can live for years, talking about the marathon you ran, the
endurance lifestyle as mirrored in the marathon calls you and me and all of
us to realize that we are interdependent. We are called to make a
difference, in whatever small way. We are called to run “The Marathon”
called life…well.
Marathoners, family and friends of marathoners, [...]
Marathon Psyching Series: 1. Accepting the Marathon Challenge
0 Comment by Ozzie MR / April 28, 2007 / Posted in Psyching SeriesMarathon Psyching Series: 1. Accepting the Marathon Challenge
Marathoners, family and friends of marathoners, co-workers of marathoners,
anyone knowing someone participating in a Marathon, please pass this series
on to anyone running the first Marathon or thousandth. Or save the series
when you are getting ready for your Marathon. Thanks. Ozzie
Accepting the Marathon Challenge
© 2000, 2002 Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, [...]
