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How to Engage Your Core
Running and Triathlon Tips & Articles

How to Engage Your Core

  • Faux Runner
  • Posted on March 3, 2019

Before I became a runner, I was obsessed with ab exercises like crunches (that didn’t give me a 6 pack anyway). But as I became a more well informed runner and triathlete, I learnt about the value of core strength. When I asked experienced runners and coaches what else I could do to improve my…

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Running and Triathlon Tips & Articles

Favorite Treadmill Workouts

  • Faux Runner
  • Posted on February 18, 2019

When I first started running, I ran on the treadmill exclusively. Yes, I had taken a mad leap by signing up for a half marathon as my first race, but I was like a beached whale, 190lbs, size 16, nursing my almost 1 year old (we all know what nursing does to certain parts of the…

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Running and Triathlon Tips & Articles

How to train effectively for running hills

  • Faux Runner
  • Posted on February 12, 2019

My favorite and most common place to run is a 3 mile FLAT gravel loop that has a 5 mile FLAT out and back on the road. Hills are hard. I don’t like hills. Sure, hills build character. But I don’t like hills. I usually pick races that are not hilly, even though I run…

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Running Surfaces
Running and Triathlon Tips & Articles

What are some of the best running surfaces?

  • Faux Runner
  • Posted on April 18, 2018

Last week I ran with Barbara in midtown Atlanta and as we navigated uneven sidewalks with mix of dirt and concrete, I realized that it was my first run in many months that I had run on concrete sidewalks and definitely my longest run on concrete since mid-summer last year when I ran a 15…

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TIPS FOR SPRING RUNNING AFTER A WINTER BREAK
Running and Triathlon Tips & Articles

Tips for Spring Running after a Winter Break

  • Faux Runner
  • Posted on April 10, 2018

With the weather getting warmer (wait – is it REALLY getting warmer or is it pretending to get warm and then go back to cold?!!) and more daylight hours in the evening, lots of runners are stepping away from their winter hibernation and getting back to running. Or you might have cross-trained in the winter…

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How to not let stress affect your workouts
General Fitness

How to not let stress affect your workouts

  • Faux Runner
  • Posted on February 2, 2018

For the past week and a half, I’ve been involved with a very talented and a tad crazy group of people to compete in a hackathon – where we produce a fully developed product delivering actual value to our users and company. Yesterday was the final presentation and judging; we had to pitch to senior…

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Symptoms during Taper and How to get over it
Running

Symptoms during Taper and How to get over it

  • Faux Runner
  • Posted on October 10, 2017

These past few days have been very weird. My runs don’t need any planning since they are only an hour or less in duration, so I’m not as mentally engaged in the runs as I was a few weeks ago. I have a lot of time to actually sit down and look through the minions…

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