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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

Oura Ring for Runners

Oura Ring 2

An important part of training is rest and recovery, but even with a personalized, periodized plan, how can you tell if any one run, cross training or strength training day should be an effort session, an easy day or even

Jo July 19, 2020July 19, 2020 Cross Training, Health, Running, Tracking Devices, 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

Dopey Challenge Training

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And so it started (again) … the post race endorphins that led to my signing up for the Dopey Challenge were gone, and 18 weeks of early mornings and long runs began. The Dopey Challenge is unique – 4 races

Jo September 30, 2018January 27, 2020 Cross Training, Marathon, Run Disney, Running Read more

5 Tips for New Runners

5 Tips for New Runners

Hindsight is 20/20 right.  Looking back to 2015 when I started running after a 25 year break I did some not so smart things.  Here are 5 tips for new runners to help avoid the mistakes I made Shoes If

Jo July 1, 2018January 27, 2020 Cross Training, Running Read more
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