Response to an article on the Running Shoe Debate
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / December 13, 2009 / Posted in Mindful RunningThe Running Shoe Debate: How Barefoot Runners are Shaping the Shoe Industry
By Tyghe Trimble in April 22, 2009 edition of Popular Mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/4314401.html
Debate is taking a stance that one’s ideas are correct and the other side’s are wrong. Discussion comes from the same derivation at concussion and percussion: A hitting up against. In [...]
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 [...]
Mindful Running: Ya never know your impact.
2 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / November 24, 2009 / Posted in Injury Prevention, Mindful Running, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running MindInteresting where one’s thoughts end up being shared. I was looking up some info on Barefoot Running and came across this quote quoting me from a 2001 post of mine on Ball/Heel/Ball Is The Correct Way To Run. Pleased to have an impact on barefoot running and proper running.
In a March 30th, 2004 [...]
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 [...]
The Journey of a Walking/Running Therapist
2 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / July 6, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running“SOLVITUR AMBULANDO: The problem will walk itself out.” ––Latin Proverb.
The Journey of a Running Therapist
A Sometimes Mindful Runner
©1997, 2009 Austin’Ozzie’ Gontang, Ph.D.
The issue will always be, “When was your last run?” Not what you did last month or last year or ten years ago. The sojourn, however, is often of interest to fellow travelers [...]
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 [...]
First and Foremost; Be A Good Animal
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / March 13, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, MindfulnessGeorge Sheehan in his writings said we are called to be Saints, Poets, Philosophers, Artists, and Athletes. His would add emphatically at the end: But first and foremost; Be a good animal.
To that end and that beginning Frank Forencich created Exuberant Animal to promote health, positive physicality and physical happiness. Click here to get [...]
Welcome to Mindful Running
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 26, 2009 / Posted in Mindful RunningTo begin the journey of mindful running we will observe. In this journey it will be a path which allows you to observe yourself and others. It is a road which allows you to teach and be taught. It is a sojourn which will give you points of observation with which to play. The direction [...]
Inspiring Others to Reach for the Stars
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 26, 2009 / Posted in Mindful RunningSome reflections sparked by a post from Dru Jacobs in Boulder.
© 1997 Austin “Ozzie” Gontang, Ph.D.
I am continually amazed how we push the envelope of human possibility through the visions and dreams that pop into our minds.
I know that the dreamers and visionaries touched by/sparked by/moved by a story, are now in training for the [...]
