New article in Trail Runner magazine.  Now online:  The Lung-Gom-Pa Runners of Old Tibet.  Exploring the Mystery Behind an Ancient Buddhist Practice.

Getting ready for a trail race? Try this for your training:

1.    Seclude yourself in a remote cave for three years.

2.    Spend most of your time practicing breathing exercises and chanting Buddhist mantras.

3.    Practice leaping upward from a cross-legged sitting position without using your hands. Repeat ad infinitum.

4.    Return to the world three years later, light as a feather, in a heightened state of consciousness.

Run vast distances. Win races. (Known side effect: By this point in your training, the act of winning will have become meaningless to you).