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		<title>The Psychology of Running Motivation: How To Get in the Right Frame of Mind to Dominate Your Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 12:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not qualifying for the Boston Marathon. Failing to set a new PR. Missing weeks of training. Running a horrible race. Runners fail all the time. But the failures I just mentioned are huge; they are the ones that consume you and that only other runners understand. I want to talk about small failures. Little failures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strength Running Vision: 7 Rules of the Strength Runner Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strength Running is about more than just me, Jason Fitzgerald. It&#8217;s about you &#8211; my fellow Strength Runners and the community that supports the Strength Running vision. Welcome aboard. If you&#8217;ve been hanging out here for a few months you know we do things differently: there&#8217;s no &#8220;Top 3 Injury Prevention tips&#8221; articles because that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does it Take to Run a PR? Five Runners Show You Their Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I talked about my decision to be a faster runner. I committed to doing the work that was necessary to bring my performances to the next level. It worked and I ran nearly a minute faster over 8k cross country. Becoming a better runner isn&#8217;t that easy. You can’t just “make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Running One of Your New Year&#8217;s Resolutions? Here&#8217;s a 5-Point Plan for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are your New Year&#8217;s Resolutions? Tens of millions of people made resolutions this year, many of them centered around health and well-being. From eating better, strength training, to running a few times a week &#8211; New Year&#8217;s goals about getting in better shape are the most common. But almost every person will fail to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Through Fatigue: Should You Run After a Hard Workout?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the normal training cycle, there will be workouts that are longer and more intense than others. Your long run or interval workout are examples that may cause more soreness than a standard distance or tempo run. Soreness is part of running and not something that you should try to completely avoid. As Steve Magness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gym Jones Approach to Distance Running</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pretty much anything Mark Twight offered up was so difficult in the kind of way where you wish you had never been born &#8211; and even more than that, wished he had never been born.&#8221; &#8211; Gerard Butler, King Leonidas In 2007, an epic movie was released in theaters called 300 that chronicled an outnumbered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Favorite Running Memory? Runners Answer: Boston Qualifiers, Yosemite&#8217;s Half Dome, and Huarache&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After having run for over 12 years, it seems like some of my favorite memories have been through running. I&#8217;ve raced indoor track, outdoor track, cross-country, road races, and the New York Marathon. My fiancee was a college runner and that&#8217;s how we met. Most of my best friends are (or were) runners in high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Demand Inspiration: 7 American Records to Motivate Your Running</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a compilation of American Records from sprint events on the track to long road races. We all need some inspiration, so why not look to those who are breaking records and stretching the limits of human performance? Strictly for space considerations, I haven&#8217;t included every event and I only used men&#8217;s performances. 100m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Confidence Boosting Ideas to Break Out of Any Running Rut</title>
		<link>http://strengthrunning.com/2010/10/how-to-increase-running-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest article from Greg Strosaker. Greg is the 3:03 marathoner behind Predawn Runner, a blog that provides tips on fitting running into the already-busy life, with tips on squeezing more training time in, making the most of the time you do have, and finding ways to boost your performance come race-day.  You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Training = Fast Fall Racing</title>
		<link>http://strengthrunning.com/2010/09/summer-training-fast-fall-racing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aerobic Support]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running in the heat and humidity of summer presents a lot of challenges to runners. The constant sweat, the tough workouts, and the scorching sun make summer training difficult. I know that I had to cut a few workouts short because of the heat and humidity here in the Washington, DC area. But now the [...]]]></description>
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