The Scoop

  • Week Twelve: Game Day

    Week Twelve: Game Day

    I'm on the plane heading to Cleveland as I write this. Go ahead and tally "redeye cross country flight two days before the race" to the list of bonehead things I've done this...

  • Nick & Jesse: Athlete-preneurs

    Nick & Jesse: Athlete-preneurs

    When it comes to balancing business and sport, we've got two of the best. CEO and co-founder Jesse Thomas spends the time he's not swim-bike-running keeping things running...

  • Week Eleven: Butt Stuff

    Week Eleven: Butt Stuff

    Being sour over an injury isn't going to help anything or make my glutes magically start firing, so we're not going to dwell on it. Here are the glute activation exercises my PT assigned...

  • Week Ten: Abominable Snowman

    Week Ten: Abominable Snowman

    I've run less than an hour total in the last 12 days, but I have done the following: Had the most painful "massage" of my life. Read a lot about and used the following new-to-me rehab...

  • Week Nine: Warty Toads

    Week Nine: Warty Toads

    Call it karma or irony, but after declaring last weekend’s 20 miler my first ever successful running of the distance, I spent most of this week niggle-nursing. (That’s what you call it...

  • Week Eight: A "Real" Runner

    Week Eight: A "Real" Runner

    I remember the first time I felt like a “real” runner. It wasn't running a certain distance or time, getting a piece of fancy equipment or my first real training injury. It didn't come...