#Deena Kastor

[studentofthesport]

So I just started this account, but!, I’m planning to do some overviews of distance running books, as well as books about other sports because we can all learn from each other, and plan to do post this over the next few weeks!

Some of the books that I will be posting about are:

- Running with the Buffaloes, by Chris Lear

- Let Your Mind Run, by Deena Kastor

- Eat & Run, by Scott Jurek

- How She Did It, by Molly Huddle and Sara Slattery (with interviews with many elite, women distance runners)

- The Performance Cortex, Zach Schonbrun

- Once A Runner, by John L. Parker, Jr.

- Strong: A runner’s guide to boosting confidence and becoming the best version of you, by Kara Goucher

- The Competitive Edge, by Richard Elliot

- (memoir by a soccer player) When Nobody Was Watching, by Carli Lloyd

- Running to the Edge, by Matthew Futterman

- Brain Training for Runners, by Matt Fitzgerald

- Bravey, by Alexi Pappas

- How Bad Do You Want It?, by Matt Fitzgerald

- What Made Maddy Run, by Kate Fagan

[monaut]

I forgot how much I love distance running :) (I signed up and trained for a half marathon that got cancelled for COVID and coincidentally got a bad knee injury and gave up running then) I started running again and I’m reading deena kastor’s autobiography now (unrelatedly her husband went to my high school???) and I’m so inspired… there is something really special about distance running - setting the goals, having to fight the mental battle, the runner’s high… I’m grateful to have a strong body that can handle mileage :’)

[rlewisphilly]

Yesterday...did you?

National Running Day (6/5) Sorry yes it was yesterday.  I went for a run and made my day. “One run can change your day. Many runs can change your life.” Thank Deena Kastor for that one.  The US has the lowest number of runners in about 10 years…so get off your butt and let’s go!

[squaringthacircle]

Des Linden at 40 years old breaks Deena Kastor's American mastors marathon record by 12 seconds running 2:27:35

Chicago Marathon 2023

[funsimplethings]

[focusonthegoodnews]

Benefits of Meditation for Runners – How Pros Meditate Good News Notes: "Olympic steeplechaser Colleen Quigley calls it her “secret weapon.” Deena Kastor, the…

[theshoeaddicts]

2017 NYRR Hall of Fame and Awards Ceremony pt 8

www.runblogrun.com

[gungieblog]

Emily Sisson set a record for US women at the Chicago Marathon

By Nouran Salahieh, CNN

Published 3:59 AM EDT, Mon October 10, 2022

Emily Sisson set a new record for US women at the Chicago Marathon Sunday.Matt Marton/Associated PressCNN — 

Emily Sisson set a new record for an American woman when she finished second at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon Sunday.

Sisson finished with a time of 2:18:29, beating Keira D’Amato’s record by 43 seconds, the Chicago Marathon tweeted. D’Amato set the previous record at the Houston Marathon earlier this year, finishing at 2:19:12.

The two women, as well as record holders from 2006 and 1985, Deena Kastor and Joan Benoit Samuelson, all came together for a photo Sunday.

[helenjgaston]

3 workout recovery tips from an Olympic runner (yes, they’re that legit)

3 workout recovery tips from an Olympic runner (yes, they’re that legit)

https://www.wellandgood.com/good-sweat/post-workout-recovery-tips-asics/

If you’re a member of the mass exodus that always skips the stretching portion after a workout class, or if just the thought of foam rolling makes you want to skip your workout completely, Olympic runner Deena Kastor has some great news for you.

Yes, she acknowledges that taking care of your muscles post-workout is…

[runningwithbeth]

I get to - not I have to

I get to – not I have to

Yesterday I really struggled. In fact, I ended up walking only with no running intervals for the last half. I just couldn’t get my head in the game (Cue High School Musical). I felt defeated – even before I started. I didn’t want to go, but felt like I had to go. So I went, but I guess I had already decided in my head that my body wasn’t going to cooperate. Then I felt bad about myself the rest…

[saltmarshrunning]

Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor

Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor

If there is one single take away from Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor, let it be this: there is no greater influence on success than the power of optimism. Emotional control and mental fortitude are necessary for one to do their very best in any event, especially distance running. Too often, we focus on the physical training and neglect the mental mindset required to run competitively.

I had…

[howtallcelebrity-blog]

All about Deena Kastor : height, biography, quotes

How tall is Deena Kastor

See at http://www.heightcelebs.com/2017/06/deena-kastor/

for Deena Kastor Height

Deena Kastor's height is 5ft 4in (1.63 m)Deena Michelle Kastor (born Deena Michelle Drossin on February 14, 1973) is an American long-distance runner. She holds American records in the marathon, half-marathon, and numerous road distances. She won the bronze medal in the women's marathon at the...

[entirebodyexercise]

The Art Of The Fartlek

Invigorate your training by differing between rapid as well as slow-moving running.

The word itself usually stimulates a chuckle, but a fartlek session is anything but a joke of a workout.

Fartlek is a Swedish word that implies "speed play," however virtually it suggests you're playing with rate by alternating in between faster as well as slower bouts of running throughout a workout. The length and also rate of the much faster "pick-ups," along with the slower recovery intervals, will certainly differ depending upon your training focus, yet the alternating between faster as well as slower runs in a non-stop run will certainly be comparable.

Fartlek training is a secure and efficient method to jump-start and also tweak your training after you've put in a couple of weeks of base training. Plus, rotating speeds during an exercise can be a great deal of fun as compared to running the very same pace for something like a common 45-minute run.

"One of the most crucial facet of a fartlek is that you never stop running," states Kevin McCarey, a San Diego-based running trainer. "This makes the fartlek a continual run and also even more like a race itself, instead of an interval exercise where you stop and also rest, which you would certainly never ever perform in a race."

McCarey has stressed the fartlek throughout structured, extreme phases of training while coaching a number of prominent endurance athletes, including Canadian runner/triathlete Carol Montgomery, Olympic triathlon silver medalist Michellie Jones, U.S. 50K document holder Josh Cox, and also a big team of UNITED STATE Olympic Trials qualifiers, consisting of 2003 marathon globe championship rival Tamara Lave, who ran a 2:37 Public Relations while functioning full-time as a lawyer.

While a fartlek can be done on any type of surface, McCarey chooses a huge lawn field, as it enables slower professional athletes to cut edges and effectively compete with the quicker professional athletes, pressing them to new heights in the process.

"I urge everyone to cheat, cheat, cheat," McCarey says. "That is just one of the very best components regarding doing fartleks on a huge yard area."

McCarey likewise requires his athletes to regroup after every interval, with the faster athletes running back in the direction of the slower professional athletes throughout the pause.

"This enables many individuals at various abilities to run together and also boost in a way that they never ever can if they were running on their own, or even with a group of runners that are much more their speed," says McCarey, that additionally likes that his athletes, regardless of their ability, obtain their heart rates elevated for the exact same duration of time.

Fartleks could likewise be implemented beforehand in a training phase, when an athlete is returning from a break or returning from injury.

"If someone is returning from an injury or time off, they're not visiting be in terrific form, and also it can hurt someone's self-confidence if they go to a track as well as do a workout at slower times than they would usually run," claims Michael McKeeman, a trainer at Run Mammoth Efficiency Mentoring and also a longtime training companion to American marathon document owner Deena Kastor.

To counter this ego strike, McKeeman will frequently have his athletes run fartleks over rolling hills or on a big lawn area.

"I'll utilize the setting to assist draw up just what the fartlek will certainly be," states McKeeman. "I could tell them to run hard on the uphills and also take it easy on the downhills. Or, if I recognize a professional athlete wants to run around a huge sports area, I may inform them to run hard on one side of the field and also unwind on the other."

McCarey likewise takes advantage of the setting throughout specific fartlek workouts. If it's ever before drizzling or gusty during a fartlek exercise, McCarey will have his professional athletes run 90-second periods with the wind, properly offering their bodies a speed boost and educating them how to effectively run at a pace they could not preserve without the aid of the wind. His athletes will then run back to the location they began the very first 90-second period, so that they can use the wind each time.

Like McCarey, McKeeman also uses fartlek exercises throughout more structured phases of training, with his athletes usually finishing one session a week. Both trains believe speed control during fartlek exercises is crucial, and also novices commonly run their fartleks as well hard.

"The majority of beginners do the rate phase of the fartlek also quick, which could require them to stroll during the exercise," McCarey claims. "But this is actually the contrary suggestion behind a fartlek. You ought to never ever, ever stroll."

Nevertheless, if a jogger makes a pacing blunder and also is decreased to a stroll, McKeeman claims to merely chalk it approximately a knowing encounter.

"People have the tendency to assume they're not running hard sufficient when they're not seeing divides," McKeeman states. "They run as well hard and afterwards they're trashed at the end of the fartlek, yet the vital part is they gain from this, so that when they remain in a race they'll have a better sensation for exactly how tough they should be going."

McCarey states that professional athletes who lack a solid running background should not do greater than 5 x 2-minutes difficult with 90 secs of simple running in between when very first beginning out. National class age-group joggers, on the various other hand, will do upwards of 3 x 10 minutes with 5 mins of very easy running in between. The rate must be one they could keep throughout the exercise, but the initiative will certainly obtain substantially harder as the exercise proceeds.

As a basic guideline, McCarey says that periods of 2 to 4 mins should be countered with 90 seconds of easy jogging, periods of 5 mins should be countered with 2 minutes of simple jogging, and also periods of 10 minutes ought to be responded to with 5 mins of easy jogging. McCarey suches as to finish every fartlek workout with 4 to 6 40-second strides over a tiny hill, with 1:20 of very easy jogging in between.

These strides-- short pickups carried out slightly faster compared to 5K race pace-- teach joggers to hold their type at the end of the race, and capital improves the athlete's general stamina and also assists produce a mini-core exercise.

Every four weeks approximately, McCarey likewise throws a timed mile to the end of his fartlek session, where all his runners line up at the start of a pre-measured mile and run the full range as fast as they can.

"This is where every person wants to go all out," McCarey states. "The mile is used as a measuring stick, to make sure that athletes can see if they are enhancing."

Practice fartleks by doing this, and you'll be seeing your following PR in no time at all.

Sample Fartlek Workouts

Do these workouts when every various other week for 2-8 weeks before an offered race.

Marathon Training: 5 x 5 mins at marathon race speed with 5 minutes of very easy running in between.

Half-Marathon Training: 8 x 3 minutes at half-marathon race speed with 3 minutes simple running in between.

Speed Builder:8-10 x 30 secs tough (around 10K race rate) with 2:30 mins very easy running in between.

Speed Endurance Generator: 5:00 -4:00 -3:00 -2:00 -1:00 pickups with half time recovery in between. Beginning at 5K rate and get progressively much faster with each pick-up.

Race Tune-Up: 2 x 4 minutes at 10K speed with 2 mins simple jogging in between, 2 x 3 minutes at 5K speed with 2 minutes running between, 2 x 2 mins much faster than 5K speed with 2 minutes easy jogging in between.

[funsimplethings]

[omg-physics]

Book Recommendation: Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor

Okay so I just finished this book and it was so good that I need to convince everyone else to read it. It was one of those books that I simultaneously wanted to savor for days and tear through in one sitting. It’s about Deena Kastor’s running career, but more importantly it focuses on her mindset and how she applies positivity to marathon workouts. Literally just reading the book made me a happier person.

Read it!

[toughgirlchallenges]

Molly Huddle - Long distance runner, 2x Olympian, Co-author of “How She Did It” - A high performance guide for female distance runners.

Molly Huddle is an American long-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running events. 

  Molly has won 28 USA titles, held six American records, looked down the start line of two Olympic finals and four major marathons. 

  Molly set the American record in the 5000 m at the 2014 Herculis Diamond League meet in Fontvieille, Monaco (14:42.64). She also set the American record in the 10,000 m at the 2016 Olympics, with a time of 30:13.17. Molly lives and trains in Providence, Rhode Island.

  Molly has recently co-authored “How She Did It”, with college coach Sara Slattery.The book is the ultimate roadmap for female distance runners—featuring 50 candid interviews with women who’ve made it   The book begins with key information from the professionals who help make athletic excellence possible: trainers, physicians, nutritionists, and sports psychologists. Then, you’ll hear the first-person accounts of fifty women who’ve done it themselves. From the pioneers who fought tirelessly for women’s inclusion in the sport to the names splashed across headlines today, featured athletes include:    Joan Benoit Samuelson • Patti Catalano Dillon • Madeline Manning Mims • Paula Radcliffe • Deena Kastor • Brenda Martinez • Shalane Flanagan • Emma Coburn • Raevyn Rogers • Molly Seidel • and more   With Molly and Sara guiding the way, these athletes share their empowering stories, biggest regrets, funniest moments, and hard-won advice. 

  Collectively, these voices are the embodiment of strength, meant to educate, inspire, and motivate you to see how far—and how fast—you can go.

  Learn more about the book and Molly on the Tough Girl Podcast. 

  New episodes go live every Tuesday at 7am UK time - Subscribe so you don’t miss out. 

  You ca support the mission to increase the amount of female role models in the media. Visit www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast.

  Show notes

Who is Molly

Her job as a professional distance runner

Having her first baby and entering her 3rd trimester 

Running while pregnant

Reducing her average weekly miles down from 90 miles to 40 miles.

Learning more about her childhood and her younger years

Her journey into running

Not thinking about becoming a professional athlete

Her senior year of high school and wanting to qualify for the National Cross Country Championships

Quitting basketball and focusing on running all year

Setting a new national record in high school for the 2 mile distance

Running with professional runners

Dealing with big failures and figuring out how to bounce back

Tools and strategies for mindset

The power of writing down goals and journaling

Having a mantra and using powerful words - STRONG

Loving the 5k distance and finding it fun

Running the London Marathon in 2019 and getting a Personal Best

Wanting to run a sub 2.25 marathon

Figuring out her race strategy for a marathon

Having faith in how you are feeling and going with your own plan

Releasing her new book: How she dit it - A high performance guide for female distance runners with stories of women who’ve made it. By Sara Slattery and Molly Huddle.

Wanting to write a resource for young female runners

Writing the book and speaking to 50 women about their running experiences

Speaking with Dr. Stacy Sims (Author of ROAR) and working with the female body 

The new developments with maternity cover for professional athletes since The Dream Maternity Campaign organised by Alysia Montaño 

The NY Times Article - Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted a Baby - Alysia Montaño 

Contracts and being away from the track and the impact on the financials

The running woman emoji 

Creating the Keeping Track Podcast

Wanting to share athletes stories who don’t get exposure via the main stream media

Particular highlights from the podcast - Racing for Representation

Reflecting back on finishing her first marathon in 2016 

Advice for women who want to get into running

How to connect and follow along with Molly

Final words of advice for women who have lost their running mojo

  Social Media

  Personal Instagram @mollyhuddle 

  Keeping Track Podcast - A podcast built to elevate. Inspiring athletes & figures in sports, lesser known stories, & complex topics of Women’s sports ALL IN ONE PLACE!

  Podcast: Instagram @keeptrackmedia 

Website: https://keeping-track.com 

  Book: How she dit it - A high performance guide for female distance runners with stories of women who’ve made it. By Sara Slattery and Molly Huddle.

  A book of interviews with elite female distance runners on what they’ve learned along the way & words from experts in the endurance sports world. 

  Instagram: @howshediditbook

  Website: www.howshediditbook.com 

  Check out this episode!