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    Rest and Recovery During Training Cycles

    Rest and Recovery days

    Why Do You Need a Rest Day Training involves progressive overload, gradually increasing the stress on the body during training (distance, duration, intensity). However you can’t just keep increasing stress. Training hard for more than a few consecutive days increases

    Jo February 21, 2021February 21, 2021 Injury, Running, Training Read more

    Converting to Trail Running

    Male trail runner

    Sometimes life doesn’t go quite as you planned. Having successfully completed the Dopey challenge I was planning on continuing with road running, looking at the New York, Marine Corps and London marathons … then what I thought was just a

    Jo July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 Injury, Running, Trail Running, Training, Uncategorized Read more

    Should You Run by Distance or Time?

    Running by Distance or Time

    Long story short, there is no black and white answer to the question of if you should run by distance or time. Correctly implemented as part of a training plan, both will result in performance improvements. Personally, I like structure

    Jo February 23, 2020February 23, 2020 10K, 5K, Half Marathon, Injury, Marathon, Running, Training Read more

    Returning to Running after Injury

    Returning to Running after Injury

    … Injuries suck, just saying … In 2019 it happened, I became one of the 50-80% of runners who suffer a running related injury each year.  For me it began at mile 16 of the 2017 Chicago marathon with a

    Jo February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Injury, Running, Training Read more
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