A few weeks ago, I entered the Vibram Grip Your World contest hoping to score a pair of my favorite barefooting shoes (I love me some Bikilas!). I was linked to the sweepstakes from my fellow DailyMile Team member Steve Speirs, at his blog at www.runbulldogrun.blogspot.com (He’s also on twitter at @britishbulldog and on Dailymile). It was easy – and fun! – to enter, all I had to do was submit a photo of myself running in my VFFs and I was given a …

Check out my guest post on RunReview.com on how to recover from an injury!

I did it! I finished my first triathlon, the Charlottesville Sprint in my hometown-away-from-hometown (Charlottesville, VA, home to UVA).

This is a guest post article written by Anna, writer and treadmill tester for RunReviews, a project dedicated mostly to treadmill reviews and treadmill workouts . Thanks Anna for the great workout – I can’t wait to use it when training for the Charlottesville Fall Classic 10k this fall!

Speed intervals are excellent to improve a runner’s strength, speed and endurance. I believe every runner who completed successfully the beginner stage aims to achieve higher speed goals.
I discovered that by using a treadmill I can improve my results faster and …

This past Sunday I did one of the most useful training sessions I possibly could have done for my upcoming triathlon (Charlottesville Sprint, 6/27/2010). I attended Tri2Bmore’s triathlon racing clinic, where local coach Liz Flynn (www.tri2bmore.com) and her team taught 25 aspiring triathletes techniques for racing in a multisport event.
The day started at 7:00am at a local outdoor pool with introductions, a bike check, and body marking. Then the 25 of us (mostly women, interestingly) broke up into two waves (WAVE ONE RULES!) and started in on the clinic. My …