Knighton Runs Blog

As competitive runners seeking personal bests, we are constantly looking for ways to improve.

One easy way to get better in running that athletes often overlook is to take a significant break after their season’s goal race.

Taking time off will allow your body to fully heal and benefit long-term from all your hard work.

You need to schedule time off into your training calendar, just like you do for your base building phase, workout phases, taper, and race dates.

Rushing too quickly back into running after a peak performance will likely result in performance stagnation, mental burnout, or injury.

Do you trust your experience, believe in yourself, and have faith in your strategies? On this week’s episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, I teach how to do just that.

Does Running Get Better with Age? I interview Barry Karch, host of the new podcast, Running For Your Life: The Podcast for Mature Runners.

How to get motivated?

How to put in the behind-the-scenes work to perform at your best?

How do you push through rejection?

How do you stop negative self-talk?

How do you become focused and mentally tough?>

How to put yourself in a position to compete and win?

Having the right mindset is essential for success, whether that’s in sports, work, business, or life. Barry Karch from The Real Estate UnSalesperson Podcast brought me onto his show to answer these questions!

In today’s episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, I share how I radically transformed my daily routine and approach to running over the last 30 days, and teach how you too can become EXACTLY the person you want to become in just 30 days.

The Boston Marathon is the best marathon in the world. In this episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, Coach Chris teaches how to break down the race into three distinct segments, explains how you should feel in each town, and describes what you should be thinking as the race progresses from Hopkinton to Newton to Copley Square.

Running race pace in training always feels 10x harder than it actually will during your race. If you’ve got a big goal race coming up and you feel like you are barely hanging on right now, then take a sigh of relief, trust the process, and know that you can do it. Believe in yourself. This week’s episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast is all about cumulative fatigue and why, “YES,” you can run your race pace for the entire race if you’ve been following a good training program.

How do you find the perfect balance between working hard and recovering enough so that you consistently move towards your goals?

On this week’s episode of The Knighton Runs Podcast, I chat with Alex Burke, PT about how to stay injury free while chasing big goals!

Not every day is going to be sunshine and rainbows. 

Some days you will wake up in the dark, it will be cold and snowing outside, and your training plan says “go do a track workout.” 

What do you do?

If you want to get better, you’ve got to embrace the challenge.