The 5 Keys to a Grounded Running Practice
Brad Stulberg recently published a book titled The Practice of Groundedness, and as the title suggests, it is about the principles of being a grounded person. If you are not familiar with Stulberg, he is an executive, athletics, and life coach who has written or co-written two other books on getting the most out of your life and your work — Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox.
I am going to discuss five of Stulberg’s groundedness principles and show you how you can apply them to your running practice. I am a firm believer in taking my running seriously without becoming overly anxious and compulsive about it. If you are a competitive runner, you need to take your training seriously, but as Stulberg would say, you don’t have to be overly heroic about it.
Being a grounded runner means you don’t overemphasize the heroic efforts. You don’t try to do five days of hard workouts in a row. You don’t shut yourself off from other runners because you are too worried about how much better they are at running than you are. You don’t try to cram three years of graduated training into one year.
Let’s look at what the five principles of groundedness are and let’s see how we can apply them to our running.
