Author Archives: JRM

Jim Munn: Underdog Coach

By JRM | Published: March 14, 2011
by John Barbour (Photo courtesy of the Gloucester Daily Times) The view across Gloucester’s Stage Fort Park from its hilltop gazebo to the harbor beyond is spectacular from any angle. Add over a thousand middle school runners on its 1.7-mile cross country course on a clear, cool October day and the sight becomes jaw-dropping. In a turbulent [...]
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Aerobic Engine Assessment Session

By JRM | Published: March 7, 2011
Whether you refer to yourself a competitive or recreational runner, the fact of the matter is, if you’re investing time and effort into your training program, your end goal is improvement.  As a runner, improvement means being able to run faster than you have before over a given distance and/or performing at a level that [...]
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Steve Wright: Dairy’s Poster Boy

By JRM | Published: February 26, 2011
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Breaking Point

By JRM | Published: February 24, 2011
It’s been refreshing to return to my roots, athletically speaking, and do nothing more than run.  I started my athletic career as a youth runner at just 8 years of age (27 years ago!).  Running has, and always will be, my first love.   I’ll also admit that it’s been a source of great frustration for [...]
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Stoking the Fire

By JRM | Published: February 8, 2011
As a life-long resident of New England, I’ve seen my fair share of “bad” winters over the years. However; as any endurance athlete worth their salt will attest, poor weather conditions are not an excuse to skip out on valuable training time. Sure, shuffling training sessions around a bit or opting to cross train indoors [...]
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Disconnect to Reconnect

By JRM | Published: January 11, 2011
As many competitive endurance athletes will attest, the use of high tech gadgetry has become commonplace in the world of endurance training.  Whether it be a Garmin GPS, IPod, Foot Pod, Power Meter or heart rate monitor, you can be certain that a large percentage of today’s runners and triathletes rely heavily upon such devices [...]
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Metabolic Testing: Real World Example

By JRM | Published: November 22, 2010
My latest series of training tips have thoroughly examined the use of metabolic testing and analysis and its application for the endurance athlete.  In today’s training tip, I’ll provide a real world example of how said testing can help to differentiate the respective training approaches that two athletes might have to take despite training for [...]
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Metabolic Testing & Analysis: Number Crunching

By JRM | Published: November 8, 2010
In this week’s training tip, I will discuss how metabolic testing & analysis allows both coach and athlete to evaluate the various metabolic pathways responsible for aerobic energy production.  For the competitive endurance athlete, having a clear cut understanding of exactly “where” your energy is coming from and how much of it you are using [...]
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The Fun Factor…

By JRM | Published: November 3, 2010
In FULL effect by Joel Myers at the Wicked 10k.  The “get up” says it all…
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Metabolic Testing: Fine Tuning Your Metabolic Efficiency

By JRM | Published: October 25, 2010
Let’s assume that we have two race cars:  Car number one is a gas guzzling muscle car, capable of attaining and sustaining very high rates of speed in very short periods of time.  Car number two is a fifty-mile per gallon hybrid vehicle capable of traveling nearly 600 miles on one tank of fuel.  Both [...]
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