Training with the Mad Dog

A few months ago I started training with the Mad Dog. Shortly after I got injured so badly I could only hop around on one foot. Of course, I thought I couldn't started running training now, as I couldn't walk never mind run.

But, I thought I needed some expert guidance to get me through the injury, and to start running pain free. Something, perhaps, I've not had for a while. I seemed to run well for a month or two, then get injured, and stop running. That seemed to be the pattern I'd got into, and I wanted to break this, and get back to how things used to be....

When I could run every day, and never get seriously injured...when I'd train for a marathon, do 2 in one year, then do the London to Brighton as well. That's another failing, of course, living in the past and harking back to "past glories".

My best runs are ahead of me, and my personal bests will be broken in the coming years.

Here's some info about my online coach:

He is the former...

Editorial Consultant on Endurance Training for Weider’s “Sports Fitness,” and “Men’s Fitness” magazines.

Asst. Professor, Biomedical Communications, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Vice-president, Super Nautilus Sports Training Centers of Houston.

Author of scores of articles on all phases of running, endurance, strength training, aerobic conditioning, and weight loss.

Author of the best selling books:
“Training to Run the Perfect Marathon”
“The Art of Running”
“Die Kunst des Laufens”

Schreiber competes at the following distances: 5K, 10K, 10 miles, Marathon, 50K, 71 mile Mountain Trail, 450 mile Trans-Indiana.

ASICS/TIGER says: “From the beginner to the marathoner, the best training program any runner could have.”

If you would like to start training with the Mad Dog please send an email to magicbiz[AT]tiscali.co.uk and I will arrange it so the Mad Dog contacts you, and gets you training on the right foot.
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Energy

Energy
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Copyright (c) 2006 Cole's Poetic License

Everyone's talking about energy these days.

Worrying about not having enough.

Or it costs too much.

I'm talking about how cheap it is and how it flows.
Constantly. In our bodies. Through our bodies. Easily if
we're lucky.

In Asian medicine it's called Chi or Qi.

Do you have a Chi Machine?

I do. I bought it in 1999 and have used it almost every
day since. It's a lazy man's (or woman's) 20 minute
meditation.

You lie on the floor on your back with your ankles on the
machine and turn on the machine. It gently rotates your
ankles. That's all it does. When it stops you feel like a
river is flowing through you because your breathing
oxygenates every one of your cells.

It was invented by a Japanese doctor from observing the
motion of goldfish.

I first learned about Chi when a Korean MD hired me to
write an article to explain Eastern medical practice to
Western patients. (I earned ten cents an hour on that task.
I had to go all the way back to Plato just to get started.)

Writers tend to have tight shoulders. By 1999 my shoulders
woke me up every night shouting at me. The Chi machine
shut them up for four years. Then I slipped in some grease
in a gas station and turned back to Western medicine. I
now have two new shoulders.

If you'd like one to cry on, let me know. But, back to
ENERGY. Thanks to quantum physics proving to us that our
bodies do flow, constantly, Eastern and Western medicine
are merging to our benefit.

In a recent Chicago Tribune article, Ronald Kotulak writes,
"Western medicine separated the mind from the body in the
Middle ages when the famous French philosopher Rene
Descarte agreed to accpet flesh and bone as the province of
physicians, while the Catholci church claimed possession of
the mind, insisting it was the creation of the soul.

"But Descartes, whose works were placed on the Church's
Index of Prohibited Books in 1667, believed the two really
interacted in the brain. Using the fledging powers of
observation and deductive reasoning that he was then
developing, Descartes could conclude that "the mind is so
intimately dependent upon the condition and relation of the
organs of the body, that if any means can ever be found to
render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I
believe that it is in medicine they must be sought for."

"It's taken a long time, but doctors and psychologists are
now bringing the mind and the body back together amid new
evidence that the mind can improve the healing process in
ways that traditional medicine can't.

"Unlike earlier notions about the mind-body connection,
which were often based on anecdotal stories or simply "gut"
feelings, scientists now can document through powerful
imaging technology what Descartes could only deduce, that
our thoughts are capable of producing dramatic chemical
and physical changes that directly affect our health."

Acupuncture and acupressure are Eastern medical practices
to balance the energy flow. Some say that the cause of all
negative emotion is a disruption of the body's energy
system. There's a distinction between feelings and
emotion. You can have a negative feeling but it passes by
much like a smelly truck. If it lingers more than five
minutes it becomes a negative emotion.

A process of acupressure is now used to get the energy
flowing smoothly again. It follows the meridian outlined
5000 years ago in Eastern medicine. And, evidently, it
works.

It won't put gas in your car, but it will power your feet
and heart.

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© Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, The Whole-mind Writer,
http://www.write-for-wealth.com , evycole@hughes.net
. Cole's chief aim in life is to convince everyone to
understand the power of the subconscious mind and
synchronize it with goals of the conscious mind.