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Interval Training For Runners: Get It “ON”

Intervals – you either love them or hate them. Which side of the fence do you live on? There are various flavors of intervals but the version I am referring to are the those intense, high effort, short duration intervals.  Yes, the ones that make you cry home to mamma! I prefer long course events [...]

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Shoe Wallet Field Test – Results

After two three mile runs…broken. After mentioning the Shoe Wallet as one of the possible ways to carry some form of identification during your training runs, I decided to purchase a couple samples of the product to test out. My wife was the official field tester for this product. What a sport! Installation: No problems. [...]

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Successful Training Plan Secret Revealed

We are at a moment in endurance sports history where confusion and uncertainty exists around every corner. Should I run my long run at 7:00 min/mile or 7:05 min/mile? So I need to run 100 mile weeks to be a fast runner? Do I need to run seven days a week? In times of great [...]

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Replacing Running Shoes – Lesson Not Learned

My wife was mentioning that her shins were starting to get a bit sore during her run. I took a look at her shoes and thought not again. Please replace yours running shoes before they look like this! Argh! Be active – Feel the buzz!

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Is The Garmin 305 The Right Running Tool For You?

The Garmin Forerunner 305 has many great features but are they the right ones to fit your running lifestyle and needs? To add a bit of clarity to this question, I will highlight some of the main groovy and useful features that many runners may appreciate and also some of the unit’s limitations. Groovy Features [...]

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The Running Gear Most People Forget

If you injure yourself or some bodily malfunction occurs during a run and you are unable to communicate, do you have a means to identify yourself? This is something I have rarely thought about until recently after participating in a marathon in which a young woman collapsed on the course and later died at a [...]

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Tough Last Long Run

Walking, Tired, Flat, Disappointing These are four words that described my last long run on Friday as I prep for the White Rock marathon next weekend. I ended up waking parts of the last three miles as I was just running out of energy and I also felt a bit of a tweak in my [...]

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