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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

    Dopey featured Image

    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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