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Mental & Mindset

Passive Meditation is Running — Active Meditation is Sitting Still

Before I started my daily meditation practice in 2013, I used to be the person who would say, “I run and cycle, I don’t need to meditate”. Damn, the 20 years ago Daren was very VERY wrong. Here are the […]

Hypothetical Theoretical, Mental & Mindset

The Perfect Time To Meditate Is Right After a Run

It’s so obvious, but I never did it until a few months ago. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal, 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. There are a […]

Hypothetical Theoretical

David Goggins’ Mental Toughness for Runners: The Science of Grit Training

What Is the Anterior MidCingulate Cortex (aMCC)? Right now, I’m on this David Goggins kick. Yeah, I’m seven years late; I assumed I knew everything in his book from his social media, and yeah, I was wrong. I think the […]

DLake Deliberates, Hypothetical Theoretical, Mental & Mindset, Podcast

Running Meditation – Improve Your Mindset to Run Further & Faster

Let me tell you a story that might bend your mind a bit—it’s about when I almost blew up my own running progress by being too mindful. Sounds wild, right? How could being present and aware ever be a bad […]

Podcast, Trees and DLake

How a Running Pro Trains For an Ironman 27 Years In The Future

Part 1 Mike Trees, a former pro runner, decided to break a Guinness Book world record on his second Ironman triathlon attempt after focusing on speed his whole life. What an amazing feat! As a runner (new or old) you […]

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