STL NEWS

07.20.16

Control What You Can

You can drive yourself nuts trying to plan for everything that can happen over the course of training and racing. There are just too many variables. Trying to control everything invariably leads to the "What if?" game.  And I hate the "What if?" game.  What if it's raining? What …

Read More › 07.19.16

Shakespeare the Runner: Summer Sonnets

Just your neighborhood runner, ruining Shakespeare for you, one sonnet at a time. I apologize in advance.  Note: Substitutions/deletions are marked by parentheses. Anecdotes are marked by italics.  Sonnet 18  Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?You mean, a summer&#…

Read More › 07.14.16

Change Your Trajectory

We, as a society, are on a scary trajectory.  As a result of unhealthy habits and stress, the number of overweight and obese Americans has tripled since 1980.  Our health, happiness, and quality of life are threatened.  We have the ability to change the course we're on…

Read More › 07.12.16

My Sanctuary

I’ve never been particularly good at handling tragedy. I’m not able to reconcile the great sadness and hurt we see on the daily news—disasters cataloged as quotidian events, injustices tagged and numbered, loss of life indexed and archived and massaged into statistics—…

Read More › 07.1.16

Exercise Your Right To Run

As we all prepare for our BBQs and fireworks displays, we need to remember what the 4th of July is all about: running. Okay, so maybe that’s not exactly what the Founding Fathers were thinking about all those years ago. But, seriously, what group better epitomizes the spirit of our nat…

Read More › 06.28.16

What Once Was Lost

A friend from New York City is staying with us this weekend and, as is always the case when an out-of-town guest happens to run, I have spent a good deal of time planning routes that are both appropriate to the runner and representative of the glorious running Elysium that is St. Louis and i…

Read More › 06.21.16

Pumping Iron, Running Wisdom

So, last night I was watching Pumping Iron, a 1977 documentary that follows Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno in their quest for the 1975 Mr. Olympia title…  What? It’s a good movie.  Anyway, the film tells the story of several bodybuilders, but it focuses on Sch…

Read More › 06.8.16

Where to Start

From athletes to CEOs, those who want to achieve a certain level of performance or a specific goal must first assess where they are in relation to where they want to be. In other words, to get to where we want to go, we first need to find out where we are. There is no end without a beginning…

Read More › 06.7.16

Sweet Dreams are Made of This

There are many levels of familiarity. The things you share with your best friends differ in intimacy and detail from the things you share with, say, a recent acquaintance. The former is unceremonious and chummy. The latter is a bit more button-down.  Neighbors provide an interesting …

Read More › 06.6.16

Guts and Patience and Racing

He ran out of gas.  With just over a half mile separating him from the finish line, rookie driver Alexander Rossi’s fuel tank hit empty. Careening down the backstretch and entering the final turn, his No. 98 car choked one last time. Rossi was leading the Indianapolis 500 with a …

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