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How to Adapt to Running in the Heat
All winter you look forward to running in the heat. You’re sick of the cold. You want to feel the warm air on your skin, shed the layers, and enjoy being outdoors again. But that first run feels like you’ve stepped back in time. You tire easily, legs feel heavy, you can’t maintain your pace.…
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How Running Taught Me to Get Things Done
I wasn’t good at getting things done until running taught me where I was going wrong. I started running in my late twenties. Within a year I’d signed up for a marathon. But my early enthusiasm didn’t last, and for the next fourteen years I stopped and started more times than I can count. When…
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What Makes a Running Habit Stick?
I spent 15 years trying to work out what makes a running habit stick. Each time I stopped being a little more frustrating than the time before. I was doing so many things wrong. In fact, I was doing very little right. Why my running habit didn’t stick The most overquoted concept in Atomic Habits…
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How to do a Run Streak
Run streaks often get bad press. I get it. I know why. But streaking changed my life and once you know how to do a run streak, it could change yours too. What is a run streak? A run streak is a commitment to run every day without a break. No days off. An official…
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Getting Back to Running after a Break
I was a stop-start runner for 15 years and the hardest part was always starting. I had hundreds of reasons for stopping. That was easy. But, getting back to running after a break was the hardest thing to do. Even now, after over 5 years of daily running, I still find post-injury running the hardest.…
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How to Build Mental Strength in Running
Mental strength in running isn’t discipline or gritting your teeth through mile 20. It’s consistency. It’s running when you don’t feel like it, when the easy option is to stay on the sofa. The weather is bad, but you run anyway. That is how you build mental strength, and it’s also how you use it.…
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