by John | Nov 18, 2014 | Back to Fitness, Running, The Balance, Weight Loss
Fifteen years ago, I was getting ready to embark on my first true endurance activity, “24 Hours of Canaan”—a 24-hour mountain bike relay race taking place at Canaan Valley Resort in the mountains of West Virginia. I had been putting in hours and hours of training in...
by John | Apr 8, 2014 | Back to Fitness, Weight Loss
In Feb 2013, Joe Lugiano toed the line at the start of the Iron Horse 100 Miler in Florida…at the ripe age of seventy. Since he started running in 1979, Joe has run the Boston Marathon 8 times (with a best of 2:49!), the Shamrock Marathon 18 times, the Marine Corps...
by John | Feb 17, 2014 | Back to Fitness, Nutrition, Running, Weight Loss
A friend asked me in the store last week, “How do you run to burn fat?” This was actually a great question, with a very specific answer that may not be what you think. I would like to start by saying there will always be endless debate on the best ways to exercise,...
by John | Feb 17, 2014 | Back to Fitness, Nutrition, Weight Loss
How Sugar Is Making Us Fat One of the main reasons we adults exercise is to keep trim or lose weight. It seems the natural progression of life is for it to be easier and easier to gain fat as we get older! With the ever-increasing busyness of life, how can we find...
by John | Feb 17, 2014 | Back to Fitness, Nutrition, Weight Loss
In the 2011 book Born to Run, Christopher McDougall profiled the Tarahumara Indians from Mexico’s secluded Copper Canyons. The Tarahumara are an incredible culture of endurance runners living a very simple and primitive life. Some may call their culture “undeveloped”;...