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Happiness and rewarding what we like go together. As Dr. Phil likes to say, we get what we reward, so it makes sense to reward what leads to more happiness. If we reward what we like, then we tend to get more of it … and therefore are happier.
Say “No” for happiness? That’s right. I propose that you have to be as willing to say “No” as you are willing to say “Yes” when it comes to your happiness as a runner or walker. I have pondered this proposition over the years, but the idea came to me again as my wife and …
“SBQs are a great reason to subscribe?” “What,” you may ask, “are SBQs?” An SBQ is a “Single Biggest Question”, which is something that you may pose to me about your running or walking when you become a SpryFeet.com subscriber. You have the opportunity as a subscriber to tell me:
If you have read any of my books, then you know that I put a lot into them. The challenge has been, is, and always will be to get the visibility that I believe that the books deserve, so that more people who can be helped by my books can discover them, buy them, and …
“The joy of metrics for runners and walkers” sounds abstract but actually is real and very profound. I am using the word “metrics” here to refer to everything that you can use to measure how you are doing with your running or walking. If you believe that you can’t improve what you can’t measure, and …
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What can a myth teach us about happiness as endurance runners and walkers? I just read an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about the myth of a stagnant middle class in America. The authors wrote, “The average hourly wage in real dollars has remained largely unchanged from at least 1964…” But, they went …
“Buying the change” and “being the change” may make sense individually, but I put them together in this article to make a distinction between these two behaviors — one of which may seem to hurt but is good for your long-term success as an endurance runner or walker, and one of which feels good but …
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Endurance goals for runners and walkers can be a slippery topic. We come to endurance running and walking from many different backgrounds. Some of us were on track teams in high school. Others got into the sport late in life. Our paces are all over the place. We have lots of different ambitions. We have …
If you’re a run:walk athlete, do you know how fast you walk? A lot of run:walk marathoners with whom I train do NOT know how fast they walk. Some don’t seem to care, and it’s evident in just how much they slow down in the walking phase of the run:walk method. Others care, but they …
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 …
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