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A few months ago, my wife and I took a beginner’s swing dancing class that met every week for five weeks. It was a disaster.
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How do some runners race so fast? What makes them capable of achieving such blistering finish times?
Today, we’re doing something a little bit different. While it’s paramount to your success to love running, be consistent, and plan smart …
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Running captured my heart in 1998 – and I’ve been running nearly every day since I tied my first pair of running shoes.
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Anybody who’s training for a marathon knows how difficult it can be: the long runs never end, the mileage keeps creeping up, and those tempo runs are grueling!
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You just ran a local 5k and you’re at brunch with friends, talking about how you’re training has went over the last few weeks.
Inevitably, somebody complains about their weight or not eating right. Let me know if any …
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We all know that tapering before a goal race is important to perform at your best. But should you taper before a tune-up race?
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I. Am. Fired. Up. CrossFit has – yet again – got my blood boiling with their utter nonsense.
As you probably know, I don’t think CrossFit is smart training (for anybody, not just runners). It’s simply hard exercise for …
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Every time one of these questions lands in my inbox, a runner trips in a pothole and loses a season from injury:
……“What are the best shoes to help heal my plantar fasciitis?”
“I pronate slightly more than normal
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There’s one workout that every endurance runner should be running. This “bread and butter” workout is the almighty tempo run.
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Six years ago, I published my first article on this site. What started as an experiment has exploded into the running community you see today.
We’re now 56,000+ runners strong from all over the world. We could sell out …
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