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“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure." – Thomas Watson, IBM I just came across this quote in a blog post called Failure Club, by Eric at Roc the Run. The post is about Eric's dedication to qualify for the Boston Marathon,…
Last week when I was in San Francisco, I had the great pleasure of having a couple beers with Leo Babauta. Leo writes the blog Zen Habits, and over the past six months his ideas have shaped my thinking more than any others. So it was an absolute treat to hang out with him in…
For the past few months, I've been trying to find the best way to bring No Meat Athlete into the real world. It's not that the internet doesn't rock. It's that running and eating vegetarian food — what the blog is about — happen in real life, not in 0's and 1's. To a large…
From an email I recently received (subject, "O'dark thirty") : Hi Matt, It's a tragic time when days are dark by the time I leave work and am ready for a run (living in Northern Ontario, this is the case for at least 5 months of the year). And living downtown it's not just the…
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Note: This is a guest post from my friend Jason Fitzgerald from StrengthRunning.com. As a runner, you are 20 percent more likely to be injured next year than an NFL football player. That's right. Some estimates put the injury rate for distance runners at 75% per year. That’s 3 out of every 4 runners who…
I'd love to run, but I just hate running! Without a doubt, the best part of this weekend, when I got to meet so many of you who stopped by our booth at the DC Vegfest, was getting to really learn what you're about — what inspires you, what's going really well for you, and…
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Except for the whole 135-miles-in-brutal-heat thing, Meredith Murphy is pretty normal. When she's not busy taking two year-old daughter to the zoo, the park, or even yoga class, Meredith runs her own acupuncture practice (the Healing Point in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania). She's a vegetarian too, and she loves cooking and baking. Kinda sounds like…
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This weekend I got to take advantage of a very cool opportunity. I was a guest of New Balance at their Media Retreat, held at the Sea Crest Resort on Cape Cod. About 15 media members and I got to spend the weekend hanging out at the beach, learning about New Balance products, and doing…
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You can run without being a "runner." I did it for five years. Even once I had run a handful of marathons and was close to qualifying for Boston, when I lined up at the start of a race among all these passionate runners, I still felt like an imposter. I was just a tourist,…
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I mentioned last week that I had been dealing with a little bit of runner's block. And when you're fighting runner's block, you try new things to make running fun. That's what led me to the idea of meditating while you run. While I'm not a Buddhist (or any religion, for that matter), I've been…
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