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Can lowering your run:walk ratio make you faster? I have wondered about my own run:walk ratio for several years. It started when I ran my fastest marathon — still to this date — with the 2:1 method instead of my usual 5:1 method. It continued as I kept noticing that 3:1 athletes in races seemed …
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Congratulations to no SpryFeet.com Readers Club member for winning the birthday-month drawing for September, 2015. Yes, that’s right. There was no winner for September, 2015. I had hoped to give away one of my paperbacks to a member in the USA or Canada, but there were no such members with a September birthday.
“Google Fit vs. Garmin Forerunner 310XT” is this article’s title, but “Tracking vs. Training” could be just as appropriate. My 310XT died last week. The hinge-pin above the the display tore through the orange plastic about two months ago. So, I had been running with the Garmin held in one hand instead of strapped to …
Congratulations to SpryFeet.com Readers Club member Armando Aguirre for winning the birthday-month drawing for July, 2015. Armando won a paperback copy of Run:Walk Method Mastery. You could be a future winner.
10 Happiness Hacks for Runners and Walkers is, as of today — June 2, 2015 — the new free ebook for SpryFeet.com Readers Club members. You cannot buy it from Amazon. You cannot buy it from Barnes & Noble. You cannot buy it from Google Play. You cannot buy it from Kobo. You can get …
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I formerly focused on ebook publishing only for Kindle. When I changed to a better tool for authoring books, publishing for Google Play, Kobo, and Nook became much easier. But, here’s something curious that I noticed recently: A Kindle ebook by default includes the cover image at the front of the ebook. Google Play, Kobo, …
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Congratulations to SpryFeet.com Readers Club member Ken Clay for winning the birthday-month drawing for April, 2015. Ken won my author’s proof of the paperback 2nd edition of Run:Walk Method Mastery. You could be a future winner.
I hope that your 2014 is off to a happy start. I’ve been working over the Christmas holidays on finishing the first draft of a new book for runners and walkers, and I hope to share news about it with you soon. In the meantime, I’m taking a moment today to share some other happy …
“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:
Solo running beats social running. A lot of people swear by solo running. For example, Dean Karnazes, author of 50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days — and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!, tells stories about how he loves to run by himself for miles on end in the middle …