performance

Living and running in Atlanta, avoiding hills is almost impossible. I frequently have runners tell me that “Hills hurt.” Sometimes my clients have stopped running hills completely because they assume hills are bad for their knees, Achilles, calves, hamstrings—or whatever happens to be bothering them. But hills aren't inherently bad. They are just a different training stimulus. Just like adding mileage or speed work, adding hills changes what we are asking the body to do. If

I took this of some of our ATC elites at the One Mile invitational in Boston when we were there this April. (Luciano Fiore, Luke Houser, Clay Pender, Sean Dolan) This past weekend I was glued to the TV watching the USATF Outdoor Championships. There were several of our ATC athletes competing so I was not only engaged, but also yelling at the TV. One of our athletes, Sean Dolan was interviewed after advancing through his preliminary race in the men's 800 meters. Early in the i