Recommended Reading | Mediterra Swim & Run

Thinking About Pain – Part 1

by Coach Mat | 15 Sep, 2018

What is pain? We all know what it is, but yet it’s a hard word to define both precisely and broadly enough to cover all the ways we experience it. There is good pain and bad pain. There is physical pain and mental pain and emotional pain. There is tiny annoying...

How To Eat More Vegetables – Part 1

by Coach Mat | 19 Aug, 2018

Need a reason to eat more vegetables? How about improving recovery after hard athletic efforts? You may look up these Foods to Improve Athletic Performance & Recovery. on NutritionFacts.org. I’ve been running a lot longer distances this season. With two or...

Food For Nutrition, Before Entertainment – Part 2

by Coach Mat | 11 Aug, 2018

Continued from Part 1. Do You Need To Eat Less Calories? Or maybe you just need to eat better quality calories. Here are some ways you can go about it… Eat mostly plants. Fill up on them first. Leave animal products to the last and in the smallest amounts....

Food For Nutrition, Before Entertainment – Part 1

by Coach Mat | 8 Aug, 2018

I want to make an argument for choosing food for what vital nutrition it supplies more than by how it pleases the taste buds or entertains you. But first, I want to acknowledge that meals are an important part of social bonding and a daily, centering activity in many...

Don’t Work Against Your Own Motion

by Coach Mat | 21 Jul, 2018

I have been looking back at my notes from studying one of the books from The Pose Method of Running, by Nicholas Romanov, and ran across this quote on relaxation that had caught my attention previously. It adds another dimension to my thoughts shared in a previous...

Avoid Hitting The Wall On A Long Swim/Run

by Coach Mat | 10 Jun, 2018

The question about feeding has come up with some swimmers preparing for long swim (more than 2 hours). Something like, “I start to feel suddenly quite tired after an hour or so, and I think I need some food to keep going. What should I eat and drink? This...