Running & Lyme Disease

Jim is a guest contributor. He is addressing a little written about topic – and a personal experience. We welcome your comments and contributions to this topic.
I heard the voice on my answering machine, but the words weren’t sinking in. The voice was from a neurologist who I had seen the previous week, and the [...]

The Road Back to Running – Progress is Made

Christina is a guest writer for The Running World According to Dean. This is the seventh in a series of articles on her experiences with surgery and recovery. I hope her insights and candidness will ring true for many of you as well as keep your hopes high for any recoveries or comebacks you may [...]

Healing Bones and Aqua Running

Here are two similar recent inquiries relating to introducing aqua-running to a training program as part of recovery from bone fractures. Laura asks: I am 6 weeks post broken ankle and wanted to know if pool running would help me get back to running after this injury? And Matt asks: I have been diagnosed with [...]

Running Again – Really!

Christina is a guest writer for The Running World According to Dean. This is the seventh in a series of articles on her experiences with surgery and recovery. I hope her insights and candidness will ring true for many of you as well as keep your hopes high for any recoveries or comebacks you may [...]

I have to push more or I won’t Improve

Two of my runners in the past couple weeks decided, against my advice, that they had to push as fast as they could go; and run as far as possible in order to “get in better shape.” In both cases they could barely walk the next couple days and it affected other runs adversely. Some [...]

The Road Back to Running Begins – Plantar’s Wart Part VI

Christina is a guest writer for The Running World According to Dean. This is the sixth in a series of articles on her experiences with surgery and recovery. I hope her insights and candidness will ring true for many of you as well as keep your hopes high for any recoveries or comebacks you may [...]

Don’t Take Your Running for Granted

I am not an activist… never have been and never will be. I am not naive. Yet, there was something about this situation that compelled me to at least share with a broader audience.
It all started when a woman from the Philippines requested my coaching services – Mesh. I have coached people in a few [...]

Running – a Plantar’s Wart Saga V – Continued

Christina is a guest writer for The Running World According to Dean. This is the fifth in a series of articles on her experiences with surgery and recovery. (Here’s 4, here’s #3, here’s #2, here’s #1) I hope her insights and candidness will ring true for many of you as well as keep your [...]