Pennsylvania Running Race - Articles
Running or Racing?
by
the rockstar
On Halloween, my 13 year old daughter's XC season ended. It was a successful season for her and you can best figure that out since she has been talking about continuing running. Her team doesn't practice anymore and there were some local events (road and XC) I thought she was considering. I came home from work one night a few days ago and this conv ...
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Running Versus Racing
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Matt M.
A reader sent me this interesting link a while back. It shows that there is an optimal running speed for endurance running - a pace that has the lowest energy expenditure. For the males tested, it turned out to be around 7 and a half minute miles, though there was variation due to body size and limb length.The study really showed that there is a ...
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Last run before the race
by
Allen
I ran a comfortable two miles this morning. I just let my body dictate the pace. My average pace for the first mile was 11:10, and my average pace for the second mile was 10:15. I don't know if I'll have the endurance to keep a 10:15 pace for the whole race, but if I did I'd finish in 2 hours and 14 minutes. That would be a miracle! Tomorrow, my w ...
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Running, Racing, Reporting
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Amy H.
Call it the three R's in your running career -Running, what we do with the everyday trainingRacing, when you venture out for some kind of timed event and cross the finish lineReporting, our endless supply of stories, antedotes and details about our racing and sometimes our everyday runningAs runners, we seem to have an endless supply of books, reso ...
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Running in the Race for the Cure
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Alexandra H.
Saturday morning, I was among the 50,000 participants in the Susan G. Komen National Race for the Cure, a 5K event held in Washington, DC. The event raised $4.9 million to fund the breast cancer research community health programs for the medically underserved in the National Capital area.Next year, the event will be named the “Susan G. Komen ...
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Should You Walk During a Running Race?
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Perry R.
Prior to 2003, my marathon training was minimal. In fact, my longest run before ever doing a full marathon was 13.1 miles. This allowed me lots of free time but also limited my marathon times to ~4:00. Then I decided to train hard to see if I could break the world record [...]
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Thur Run and Sat Race
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BaddApple ..
I did my second big run of the week. This was another heart rate monitor. This workout was just two Zones, but the were higher heart rate speed and for a longer time 48 minutes. It wasn't really an issue until I got to about the 30 min mark. I had problems bringing my heart rate down into Zone 1. I should have slowed my pace, but I didn't. This is ...
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Sunday Race Pace Run
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Glenn Jones
I finished week two of my Half Marathon plan yesterday by doing a little four mile run. The plan was four miles at race pace. I ran at a pace that was comfortable for me. Turns out it was probably a little fast - definitely not a pace I could keep for a half. Final statistics - 9:43 average pace at a heart rate of 148 (84% MHR ). For the week, I pu ...
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Running and racing with a happy heart
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Kelly Ridgway
Yesterday I ran the Run on the Sly 50k in Pollock Pines, Ca. I ran the 50 mile there in 2003. For some reason they only have a 50k, 20 miler, and an 8 mile race there now. I wanted to run a 50k before my toe surgery that is scheduled for Sept. 18th. I am not in 50 mile shape and it was looking sketchy whether I could even pull off a 50k! The l ...
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