Let’s Go – American Flyers By: Mark Thompson, Attorney at Law Have you seriously not seen the 1985 cycling classic American Flyers? I first saw it on HBO as a kid and remembered it as a strongly accurate portrayal of bike racing and training. I was only a little off in that assessment. I also [...]

As I watched the elites race the Bolder Boulder, I was amazed at how some of the runners, in particular Dmessew Tsega, failed to run the tangents. A tangent is a line that just touches a curve, it doesn’t touch the curve nor does it intersect the curve. The tangents are also how the race [...]

I suffered a stress fracture in my tibia after the Denver Marathon in 2006. While sitting around for eight weeks and recovering, I started thinking of what might have caused the stress fracture. The obvious reason was my ramp up in mileage, but I also did a lot of my running on the Cherry Creek [...]

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The summer is fast approaching and with the summer comes the heat! The good news is that the body can acclimate to the heat but in general it takes two weeks of training under these conditions. A few good tips to know are that the mornings are the coolest time of day to run, but [...]

Here are a few training tips from Mark Thompson, Attorney At Law 1. When racing, don’t go out too hard! Once you enter oxygen debt, your body cannot recover until you rest. Try pacing yourself and concentrating on even, or negative splits. 2. Increase your mileage slowly. A good rule of thumb is increasing your [...]

Literally, I have done over a hundred road races in my lifetime and had previously volunteered zero times. This weekend, I decided to give back to the local road racing community, as I volunteered for the Colfax Marathon. Saturday was spent in City Park, which was coined “Marathon Village” for the race and the site [...]

Today was the day that I was suppose to have run the Lincoln Marathon. It’s been four weeks since I last ran the Platte River Half Marathon and came down with my Hip Flexor Sprain. I still can’t run, but it’s getting better. I got tired of riding the bike at home, so I joined [...]

One of my biggest gripes is races that have multiple distances going on. I’ve found that they have a higher than average chance of screwing up, due to the chaos of multiple distances. I was rather critical of The Heart Center of the Rockies Half Marathon in my race review. I think this race has [...]