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Day: January 27, 2011

Dilemmas, Dilemmas and Dilemmas

Dilemmas, Dilemmas and Dilemmas

The Players: The FauxRunner and Her Husband The Scenario: Both planning their first full marathon The Background: FauxRunner is obsessive about running(like anything else she tries); has been faithfully running and training since starting a year ago, and building up endurance in her own slow pace to make sure her body can handle the stress.The husband is a runner from heart. Doesn’t think about time, pace, races or anything (mid-run fuel included!). Just runs. Has been running since 2005, although…

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The Importance of Rest

The Importance of Rest

Put simply – Rest is important for the human body to heal and strengthen itself. So is pacing yourself and not push too much even though your body is willing to go there. Both of the above is very important to someone who was a couch potato an year ago, someone who’s pace is still 13:00-14:00. And not heeding to it – body crashes. After 2 weeks of intense tempo, speedwork, a 13mile training run in which I was faster…

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