If you want to be as great as you can be at something… you need to love that something. Check out this video I made with Catherine Li and Nike Running. We’ll try to give you some of the coaching, inspiration and motivation you need to start running… and start a long term relationship with the sport. Hope you enjoy the video and if you do… please like, comment, share, subscribe, go for a run, and watch again.
Cheers,
Coach Bennett
Running on the beach can be an awesome experience. But running on the beach the wrong way can be worse than sand in your mouth. (Anakin knows what I’m talking about.) Anyway, check out this video I made with artist and surfing superstar Cayla Moore for Nike Running and then hit the beach running. I hope you enjoy it! And feel free to follow… like… and share if you do.
Cheers,
Coach Bennett
#everyrunhasapurpose
There is so much about this run that I can’t remember. There is so much about this run I don’t know. I can’t remember how many miles it was. I can’t remember the pace I ran. I don’t know what my heart rate was. I don’t know what the cadence was.
Power output… I don’t know it. Calories burned… don’t know that either. Elevation gain… no idea.
But I do remember being happy. And I remember how beautiful Central Park was that night with the snow falling. I can remember how cold it was outside. I can remember how warm I felt inside. I remember being thankful that I could run. I remember hoping that I would never forget this run that night.
I can’t remember so much about this run. But I remember everything that matters.
This is about running. This is not about running.
Yes, running is awesome. And yes, dogs are awesome. So, it just makes sense to try and share with people how running with your dog can be beyond awesome. Check out this video I did with Nike Running and Keely Henninger of the Nike Trail Team. Hope you enjoy it! And feel free to share, like, comment… and go for a run with your dog.
Cheers,
Coach Bennett
Check out A MILE OF YOUR TIME with American Record Holder,
Olympic Silver Medalist, all time great distance runner,
Bowerman Track Club member and all around great guy…
Evan Jager.
Hope you enjoy!
Cheers!
A MILE OF YOUR TIME: Evan Jager
Check out this episode of A MILE OF YOUR TIME. I’m running a mile with two of the founders of the WE RUN UPTOWN run crew – Hector Espinal and Josh Mock. They also happen to be two of the best people in our sport.
Cheers,
Coach Bennett
#everyrunhasapurpose
A MILE OF YOUR TIME: WE RUN UPTOWN CREW
Check out this video I did with Nike Running.
Cheers and thank you for running!
Coach Bennett
Check out the latest video I made for the Nike Running with Caleon Fox.
Hope you enjoy it!
Cheers,
Coach Bennett
It was not my longest run.
Not even close to my fastest.
I didn’t hear any cheering
or have any great epiphanies.
I remember being scared.
But I was excited too.
Scared it was going to hurt.
Excited that it might not.
February 4th.
I was a junior in HS.
I ran a 1/2 mile from my front door.
That’s it.
My most important run
was only 800 meters long.
Five months earlier, in September,
I opened my XC season with the
fastest time at the meet by a NJ runner.
That was followed by an invitation
to the 5th Avenue Mile in NYC.
Then my foot started to hurt.
Then it hurt worse.
Taping it alone, icing it alone,
screaming at it alone, throwing things
around my room alone – it only hurt more.
October. Misdiagnosed – again & again.
Told to take a few days off.
Told to run on it again.
Told it would get better. It didn’t.
November. I got mono.
I got over the mono.
My foot still hurt.
December. The bone scan said 4 cracks in the foot.
Explains the pain. Explains why I couldn’t run through it.
And it explains the knee high plaster cast I was put in.
For five months I knew that every time
I put my right foot on the ground it
would hurt. I would flinch even before
I put my foot down.
Every. Other. Step.
I anticipated the pain.
The cast came off in late January.
I put on my running shoes again.
I even wore the team jacket.
I wanted to feel like I had a purpose again.
I wasn’t afraid of hurting.
I was just afraid of still being hurt.
Please.
Please don’t hurt.
I knew that I was going to start & finish
this run at the same place.
I knew I wouldn’t be gone long.
And I knew one way or another
I wouldn’t be the same when I got back.
I want to run again.
Please. Give me this.
I started down my front lawn.
It was the only time my Mom
took a picture of a run.
I didn’t even know it existed
until she showed it to me after
graduation 15 months later.
Hundreds & hundreds of miles later.
Miles without a flinch.
State Championship miles.
All American miles.
So many miles.
But none of the miles that followed
were as special to me as this.
And it was only half of one.
Check out the article I wrote for the latest Runner’s World
magazine. You can read it by following the link below!
Cheers,
Coach Bennett
You won’t be able to run hard when you want to unless you run easy when you need to. https://t.co/eHlGltmTBQ
— Runner’s World (@runnersworld) July 7, 2019
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