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Stress Fractures and Orthotics
My question: Any runners/endurance people out there - who out there has positive experiences with orthotics of any kind? Also, anybody else been told they have an even gait, and if so, what are your shoe/injury experiences? My issue: I have an even gait (rare, but true - I do not over or under pronate at all), and stupidly…
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Cycling and (lack of) Daylight
Question for all the cyclists out there... I saw the December cycling challenge, and kept thinking to myself "but when do they bike?" I have a lovely headlight, but have been off the cycling wagon for a while and biking in the dark on streets is intimidating enough that I won't do it. So I've been a bit of a weekend…
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Heart Rate Connundrum - Can't get it up (even in Intervals)
Background: I'm a long time runner (off and on, mostly on, for 20 years). I'm 32yr old, female, a very healthy weight, and have been running ~20-40 miles a week for the past 9 months (averaged ~20 miles a week for most of my life). My resting heart rate is, and always has been, between 52-60 bpm. My pace depends on the…
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HIIT vs. Aerobic for building base miles?
My training partner is attempting to drop some extra pounds between now and when we start training for next year's marathon (December 31, totally coincidentally - the marathon is in early May). We've got 11 weeks. I know he can continue to lose during training, but I'd like to have a good idea of what to expect going in to…
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Taper drives me nuts?
Every time I train for a distance race, I do great until the week before the race... When I start climbing the walls, feeling like I'm hardly running at all, and I get super cranky. It seriously drives me nuts. I end up running as fast as I can for the shorter distances, and man do I fly (comparatively, of course), but I…
