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I know this is sort of off the topic of performance running, but this post is about internet service providers.  More specifically, I have created a survey in order to find out what is important to customers of internet service providers.  The survey is part of my study of marketing research with Monash University and […]

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Running Within: A guide to mastering the body-mind-spirit connection for ultimate training and racing (1999)
Jerry Lynch and Warren Scott
Human Kinetics
Soft cover 198 pages black and white pictures
Overall score 7 out of 10 
The first thing that hit me with this book was the sub title!  That one sentence is enough to sell the book to some […]

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From parts one and two of this series we now have an excellent structure, detailing how far we should run in each week of our base training phase.  All that is left is to decide how long each run should be and how fast we should run it.

How long should each run be?  This is […]

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I finished part 1 of this series by outlining how we should calculate the increasing quantities of mileage that an excellant base training phase should include.  Now it is time for us to do just that.  This may take five minutes but it is worth it, so grab some paper, a pen, a calculator and your calendar.  Here comes the […]

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Base training is surely the most fundamental and easiest type of training that a runner carries out in any season.  Why is it then that we so often get it wrong?  Why is it that a mid-season injury often surprises us, when we should have known all along that it was because of our inadequate […]

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Daniels’ Running Formula Proven Programs 800m to the marathon 2nd edition  (2005)

Jack Daniels, PHD (World’s best running coach)

Human Kinetics

284 pages black and white photographs, graphs and tables

My Score 8 out of 10

This has had to be one of the most useful general running texts I have ever read.  Jack Daniels has been around, training […]

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We are told that patience is a virtue and that patience comes to those who wait.  We are told that doctors need plenty of patients or they go out of business and that if we want to learn how to be patient we should try waiting in one of their surgery waiting rooms.  But why […]

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My running goals include running progressively faster marathons until I simply can’t run them any faster.  With scientific and gradual training, excellent recovery and injury prevention,  this progress could potentially continue till I’m somewhere around 40 years old (or maybe older).  I am now 33 and have been trying to look into the crystal ball and […]

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Do you find that people stare at you when you are running? 

Do people call out and whistle at you? 
Do you sometimes wish you could just go for a run and not be noticed? 

My advice: Next time you run, try wearing clothes               
    

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Aim to finish your training runs later than you start them.  As a result you will virtually guarantee time on the road, which is a step in the right direction to superior performance.  Simple…but stupid!

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