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When I met my wife, she liked to run 5K races whereas I liked to work out daily on an elliptical machine. And this gave me an idea for a training experiment: I would train weekdays on my gym’s elliptical machine. I would race every few weekends in a 5K race. And I would track …
It can be real madness to buy a running or walking shoe that you have never worn from an online store. I am a big fan of local specialty stores for runners and walkers, for many reasons, but especially when you are shopping for shoes. If you have never bought the right pair of shoes …
ChiaRunning Running so slowly that a Chia Pet plant begins to grow on your head ChiaWalking Walking so slowly that a Chia Pet plant definitely blooms on your head Circuit Training More fun for apprentice electricians than for runners Coaching Philosophy When the coach talks too much before a group run Cool-down When you run …
26.65 miles. That is the Mahoney-Meandering-Marathon Distance. The WHAT?! Bear with me. You can have your own meandering-marathon distance, too, but you might want to use mine for starters. (More on that in a moment.) 26.65 miles is the actual, average distance, rounded to two decimal places, that I covered over my last two marathons. …
©iStockphoto.com/inhauscreative If you still are shopping for a Christmas gift for that favorite runner or walker, then here are some last-minute gift ideas: 12 Great Gifts for the Runner in Your Life Top 10 gift ideas for runners Gift ideas for runners Christmas Gift Ideas for Hikers and Walkers Now get off the computer so …
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For want of a WHAT? For want of an electrochemical cell, as in, “Two or more cells make a battery.” I twisted my ankle toward the end of a ten-mile training run yesterday morning. Based on some simple arithmetic — around what mile it happened, yesterday’s sunrise time, when I started, and my total time …
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Okay, maybe running or walking is still cheap for you, but it is not for me. While out on a training session with my wife the other day, she looked at everything that I was wearing and joked about how runners used to require only a pair of shoes, a pair of socks, and running …
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I am not talking about how one should properly train for a marathon by covering multiples of the marathon distance during one’s training season. And I am not talking about how the official distance of a marathon is longer than 26.2 miles — that it is actually 26.21875 miles long. No, I am talking about …
I ask this question because of something that I saw last Saturday. I was at the expo for the San Antonio Marathon the next day, and the Rock ‘n’ Roll folks were selling finisher shirts. I bought one, but I also had an odd feeling about it. After all, I had not even started the …
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That is “100M” as in 100 million! Last month was National Walking Month, so Albion College challenged itself to walk more than 100,000,000 steps from October 1 through October 31. The original goal was to have 500 participants each walk at least 6,500 steps per day, for a total of at least 100,750,000 steps for …