Jill Will Run

The sky was dark, the air was cool(er), the crickets were chirping and the neighborhood sprinklers were running. It was a great morning to get out for a run. And once again, I tried to start out slower to focus on form and ended up really flying. It’s a great feeling when you have your [...]

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On Tuesday nights I meet a group of friends at our local Fleet Feet store and participate in the weekly ‘fun run’ sponsored by the store. (I LOVE FLEET FEET!) Normally I wouldn’t choose to go run in this heat, I much prefer waking at 4:00 AM to run in the cooler morning temps than [...]

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This morning’s run was great! It was only 80 degrees when I started out at 4:50 AM, instead of the upper 80′s like it has been so many other mornings lately. I started out going slow, wanting to focus on improving some little things with my form. But by the end of the run my [...]

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For travel entertainment on my recent trip to San Francisco I took the book ‘My Life on the Run’ by Bart Yasso. This book was such an enjoyable and easy read, I would recommend it to anyone whether they are a runner or not. Bart Yasso has been working at Runner’s World magazine since 1987. [...]

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In our training program we build on our long run mileage for 3 weeks and then we fall back for 1 week in order to recover. After the recovery week we jump ahead again. Since it was a fall back week, we only did 7 miles today. And to be honest, it really did feel [...]

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Today I had a really good run, I woke up early (but not too early since I have the day off work, just at 5:30 since I still need to beat the heat) and got a solid 35 minutes of comfortable running completed. I wore a hat for the first time while running, a hat [...]

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