“Be kind to yourself.” That’s the advice that one of my favorite coaches loves to give to endurance runners and walkers.
But what should this advice about being kind to yourself really mean to you as an endurance runner or walker?
I have some ideas that I want to share with you here, and then I want your comments, too.
As I write this, summer is in full swing — heat-wise — in North America.
For example, I plan to wake at 3:45 a.m. for an upcoming 15-mile group run here in Houston, Texas, because of this heat.
And I am noticing a disturbing trend these days among fellow endurance runners and walkers on Twitter:
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Compression wear was the topic of an interview of me three months ago by a track and cross-country coach for a U.S. high school.
Interviewing everyone from an exercise physiologist and a big-city newspaper writer to me, he wanted to know our advice on training and racing in summer heat.
He approached me because of what I had written about compression wear and because I live in the warm climate of Houston, Texas.
The article just got published in a U.S. running magazine, but none of the material from his interview of me made it into the article, apparently due to space restrictions.
What I said in the interview is valuable, especially for any endurance runner or walker who lives in a warm climate and is considering buying compression wear.
So here is the transcript of that unpublished interview:
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Marshall Ulrich and Kirk Mahoney
Running on Empty is the title of Marshall Ulrich‘s book about his run across America in the autumn of 2008, in which he covered 3,063 miles in 52 days at the age of 57 years old.
Marshall completed the third-fastest transcontinental crossing to date and set new records, too.
I got the book two months ago, when I met Marshall and heard him speak while he was in Houston for three days to promote it.
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