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Month: October 2016

Half Marathon Lessons Learned (and Advice Not Heeded)

Written by Kelly. Date of post: October 25, 2016October 24, 2016. Posted in Exercise Tagged Half-Marathon, Running

I think my first half marathon a couple of weeks ago went pretty well.  It was a trail run, so I set a goal of 3 hours and ended up finishing in 2 hours, 47 minutes.  That put me 188th out of 208 runners.  Not an impressive showing, but it was a finish and it […]

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Book: Younger Next Year

Written by Kelly. Date of post: October 18, 2016October 17, 2016. Posted in Exercise, Nutrition Tagged Aging, Book, Exercise, Fitness, Nutrition, Reading

I just finished Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge. It’s been on my reading list for quite some time, but I finally got around to it.  The gist of the book is that aging will happen to all of us, but that there are things we can do to make it less […]

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Fartleks – Am I real runner if I do them?!

Written by Kelly. Date of post: October 4, 2016October 4, 2016. Posted in Exercise Tagged Exercise, Running

A fartlek run, in addition to just being plain fun to say, is an unstructured run where you alternate harder efforts with easier efforts over a fairly long distance.  For example, you could run easy for a couple of minutes, then do a short sprint, then slow back down to recover for your next faster effort.  […]

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