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192: When To Quit
Quitting. It’s something we never want to do, but are there times when that might be the best option? How do we know when to push through or pull the plug? In this week's episode, we answer this and some other...
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191: How Do Body Image and Gender Stereotypes Affect Runners?
How do you see your body? Do you use positive or negative words to describe yourself? When we assess our physical body, we generally do so as a comparison to some image in our head. In this episode, we want to...
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190: Fueling and Nutrition for Runners with Kristy Baumann
As runners, we understand that food is more than simple nutrition. Food is fuel. While many runners struggle with their poor relationship with food, the bottom line is that you can't optimize your run and training...
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189: Running in the Middle
Many runners head out for a run without worrying about pace or effort. They take off and run and they finish pretty tired. They fall victim to the moderate effort trap. They never run that hard, but they never run...
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188: How Much Recovery Do I Need?
Running is hard and as much as a good inspirational message or video can make you want to run up a mountain, sometimes we just need to recover. Sometimes recovery looks like some extra sleep and an off day, but...
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187: Listener Q&A: Being "Race Fit" and The Benefits of Different Shoes
In order to consider different shoes for different race distances, you have to decide what the purpose of the race is? The same consideration comes up when you decide that you would like to always be “race fit.” Can...
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186: Should You Adjust Your Running Form?
There are so many different runners out on the roads and trails and they all run with a somewhat different look. You can often pick out friends and family from quite a distance after you have run with them awhile. ...
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185: A Runner's Journey Through Infertility and Pregnancy
In today’s bonus episode, we speak with one of our Real Life Runners, Angelica Flanigan, about her running journey during pregnancy and infertility. Angelica shares her story about her secondary infertility, how she...
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184: 6 Mistakes Most Runners Are Making
Running seems so simple. It’s at the center of most sports. Kids do it so easily. It takes relatively little equipment. Yet, beyond running is training to run, and that is a little more complex. The wrong...
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183: Why Should Runners Strength Train?
Runners tend to fall into two categories when it comes to strength training, love or hate. While some runners cherish strength days to feel stronger and tone their body, others would much rather be logging some extra...
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182: Fitting Running Into Your Life
How often do you reach the end of the day or the workweek and wonder what happened? Where did the time go? How did you get so little accomplished when you had such big plans? Maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, maybe...
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181: The Need for Speed
Remember when you were a kid and you used to just sprint from place to place without worrying that you would get tired? Remember the thrill of flying down a hill or running across a beach? Can you think back to the...
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