Run S.M.A.R.T. coach Blake Boldon wrote his first installment for the new series on Running Times titled, Sub 4:00. Check it out on Running Times' website.

Around a year ago Phil Manning lined up for the St. Malachi 5 Miler with only a vague idea of what he was capable of.  It was after all only his third footrace (Phil is a former cyclist).  He finished a very respectable 36:43.  When Phil lined up for the same race again on March 14th he had a much better idea of what he could run and planned for a PR.  Phil not only set a new PR, but shattered his time from last year by running 34:15.  This was 30 seconds per mile faster than last years race!  This is a testament of     .... more

This past weekend Alex dropped her 5k PR another 21 seconds!  Her time of 22:17 was good enough to win her age group by over 2 minutes.  In her quest to break 22 minutes Alex has bettered her 5k time by over a minute since last year.  For details on the race and Alex's training, check out her blog at http://www.run350.blogspot.com/. 

Vince Sherry

Run S.M.A.R.T Project Coach

Listening to the interview that Coach Daniels gave Flotrack made me think about how goal setting relates to every athlete.  He primarily discussed high school athletes but goals serve as the compass for every athlete from recreational joggers to world record holding elites.  So much has already been said about this topic that many runners and coaches forget the basics in goal setting.  A few years ago Pete Pfitzinger wrote a great article for Running Times on the subject and it's worth rereading.  Here is a link to the     .... more

Flotrack.org has been doing a series of interviews with Jack called Thirsty Thursdays. Each interview covers a different facet of training and racing so I encourage everyone to check the videos out at Flotrack. Here's the latest, which covers the importance of having purpose in your training and the idea that all runners should have an individualized approach.

Just added a two new photo albums: Run S.M.A.R.T. Clients and Run S.M.A.R.T. Advisory Board. We'll slowly be adding photos to these albums over the next few weeks, so if you have a nice shot send me one and I'll add it. You can check out our facebook page here. 

Later,

brian

brian@runsmartproject.com

On Friday evening I found myself questioning my sanity.  I was driving a 12 passenger van through the desert of northern AZ.  Sitting to my right and behind me were 5 other guys, I'm assuming, in the same state of mind.  We were in the second of two vans from our team, partaking in the Ragnar Del Sol Relay.  The event started as early as 10AM that morning, and consisted of 200 teams of 12 runners each (assuming you could field a full team and weren't an "ultra" team of 6).  Since we were on paper as one of the faster     .... more

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