The other day I was praising Clay for his creativity…. Today, I am not so sure…. Starting yesterday, I was experiencing soreness all the way up my backside: My hamstrings, […]

The workout for the day was intervals of  7 minutes, 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes and 2 minutes. I had to get creative to get the workout in. I […]

But then again, we already knew that. I headed over to Clay’s office for my Monday evening workout. I warmed up on the bike as usual. While doing so, Clay […]

All my friends, well, a lot of them, ran the Santa Clarita Half Marathon this morning! Congrats to all of you. I did a quick search and spotted the following: […]

What a nice way to end the workweek: Finish teaching, get changed and head outside to the parking lot. About 20 kids and Joe Kim met me there for the […]

This morning I got to the track parking lot at Joe Walker Middle School by about 5:15 am.  I got out and started warming up. I ran a loop around […]

Yesterday’s workouts included my “Sweet Sixteen” set of form drills with the students at Hillview and my biweekly trip to Clay’s office. The form drills are starting to feel a […]

One of the “little” additions to my program that I have gleaned from Brad Hudson’s program is to add some very short, very steep  uphill sprints at the end of […]

Cross Training #1 – Monday I headed over to do my workout at Clays. After my warm up I tried the 300m, 200m, 100m ski interval once again. I felt […]

Chuck and I enjoyed an easy 10 miler on the aqueduct this morning. Lance was there as well, running off ahead of us as usual. I was planning on 5 […]

Lister’s Lookout Loop and “Follow the Lister”  Wednesday was our “off campus” run day. So we looped through the houses just south of the Boulders, up to the aqueduct. We […]

Hillview boys shine at Mt. SAC meet WALNUT – The Hillview Middle School boys cross country team ran exceptionally well at the prestigous Mt. SAC meet over the weekened. The […]

I am sitting here thinking to myself, “Coach, listen to your own advice.” If I were coaching someone who happened to have similar goals to me, and a similar history […]

This afternoon about 40 kids joined me for our Hillview club run. I decided to sneak in a tempo run without them knowing it. I was pondering just how to […]

A quick note to whomever is following my training: Monday – Easy 5 miles with Chuck and Lance on the aqueduct.  (The early morning practices at Hillview are no more.) […]