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Running with Christopher McDougall, Author of Born to Run

As a ChiRunning® Instructor, mid-foot and barefoot running as always been very important in my running practice. You can look around this site and find all sorts of videos where I talk about the benefits of mid-foot running. Now go … Continue reading

Turkey Day Trail Run 15k in Topanga, CA

Watch Running Coach Steve Mackel run while shooting this video of the Topanga Turkey Trot and try not dd it to your list of must do races in 2012. It is part of the Xterra series produced by Generic Events. … Continue reading

ChiRunning Body Looseners and Four Dynamic Warm-up Exercises for Runners

In this video I show you how to do the ChiRunning® Body Looseners along with four Dynamic Warm-up exercises for runners. Exercise physiologists and sports doctors showed me these exercises over the years and I have incorporated them into my … Continue reading

Danny Dreyer Talks About Adding Power to ChiRunning – Part 2 of this Short Series

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I took some limited video of Danny Dreyer, the founder of ChiRunning® when he was speaking at a special dinner in the Bay Area. At one point my memory card ran out of storage and I was quickly deleting old … Continue reading

The Next Step in ChiRunning® with Danny Dreyer – Part 1

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I was lucky enough to be invited to a special dinner with Danny Dreyer. the founder of ChiRunning®, in San Jose. Danny used to live in the Bay Area and knows a lot of people up there. Many people he … Continue reading

Riders on the Storm – 2011 LA Marathon

Wearing my Deadliest Catch gear while helping runners at Mile 18 LA is a dangerous place when it rains. Getting around is barley doable on the freeways and streets, so 19,000 people thought it might be better to run and/or … Continue reading

The Boston Marathon is Changing Their Qualifying Standards and Registration Procedures

The good news is that I move up into the next older Age Group (AG) in 2012. The bad news is that I still have to run faster for 26.2 miles to qualify at the current standards. Below is the … Continue reading

Meet the Coaches

Steve Mackel

Steve Mackel

Born a runner but really picked up distance running in the late 90′s, when he started competing in triathlons. Read more

Gary Smith

Gary Smith

I have been running for about 20 years and doing marathons for the last five years.

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