Posted by Laura Houston on Sun Jul 11th, 2010, 0 comments
This morning we held our monthly Chi Running refresher. Summer finally arrived in Seattle and motivated a couple of past students to come out and refresh their Chi Running skills. After a brief check-in, addressing any issues or questions that come up, we went through the Body Looseners, and prepared to run. Our route is [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Wed Jun 9th, 2010, 7 comments
Lately I have noticed how much my metronome has been helping my running. I have participated in several races the last few weeks and I usually end up running with someone. Sometimes I remember my metronome and other times I ran without it. If I was running with someone whose cadence was a lot slower [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Mon May 31st, 2010, 1 comments
Last weekend Certified Instructor Natalie Isaac and I assisted Master Instructor Mary Lindahl at the CRCWIT in Chicago. The three of us met Wednesday night at a restaurant to discuss the next four days and we started talking about how gravity is used to assist in ChiRunning and decrease muscle usage. A gentleman in the [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Wed Apr 14th, 2010, 0 comments
Last fall I signed up for a 60K trail run in Oregon, planning to train through the winter, but my running was affected as I spent more time taking care of our dying family pet. By March, I switched to the 30K option (which was really 20.5 miles). Our cat passed on, and we took [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Mon Feb 1st, 2010, 0 comments
A few days ago, my boss forwarded a Nature magazine article to me that he thought I’d be interested in. Thinking it was about something we were working on, much to my pleasure, I found it was an article by Daniel Leiberman et al regarding barefoot running. By now, most of you have probably read [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Mon Dec 28th, 2009, 0 comments
I’m always amazed and grateful at the tools that ChiRunning has given me to make my running a more pleasant experience. And I’m even happier when I can share them with a running partner, and see the beneficial effects almost immediately, while we are running. I was running the other day with some friends who [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Thu Nov 26th, 2009, 0 comments
Running today made me think about a talk I attended last week, about a friend’s 70 mile kayak trip in the Florida Everglades. Someone asked him if he got bored paddling for that long, and a Florida native spoke up, saying if you learned to slow down and listen, the place comes alive; it is [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Thu Nov 19th, 2009, 0 comments
I spent last weekend near Asheville at Highland Lake Inn attending the ChiRunning Instructor retreat, put on by the ChiLiving team. Each morning, before running, we started with the Morning Exercise, a guided body sensing meditation designed to get you in your body, in preparation for running in a mindful way. Katherine or Danny guided [...]
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Posted by Laura Houston on Sat Oct 31st, 2009, 3 comments
As I was running today, I thought about how my running has become a meditative process, and how I have benefited from that. My training partner told me his wife used to be a runner, but quit. When I asked her about it, she said she had used running to work out problems and conflicts. [...]
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