Basic Training: Who, Me Take Running Class?
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Recreational runners realize that form matters and many are now soliciting advice before they cinch their shorts and lace up their sneakers.
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Q I run on a treadmill every two or three days, alternating with strength training. One hour is my limit (due to the exercise room policy), so I have been steadily increasing the distance to 6.5 miles and rising. The other day, I held the pulse reader at the end of my workout and, according to the...
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An article last week about dog owners who hire runners to exercise their pets misstated the surname of an owner in one reference and misstated the age of a runner. As noted elsewhere in the article, the dog owner is Richard Shein, not Stein, and Roy Scranton is 30, not 26.
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Runners older than 50 improve their performance more quickly than younger runners, a Yale study found, reinforcing past research on older athletes and the benefits they get from exercise.
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Getting into jogging? Here's how to avoid common new-runner injuries and what to do if you get hurt.
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SOME COLLEGE students know how to run for their lives. Take cross-country athletes. They do not get the ink. They do not get the television time. They do not have governors, alumni, and 70,000 fans fawning all over them, telling them how critical they are to the mental health of an entire state.
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Program focuses on developing running, passing and catching skills, as well as teamwork and self-confidence.
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Stonehill College coach Karen Boen encourages her cross country runners to develop expectations for themselves, then she and her staff work to help the runners reach their goal. Junior Keith Gill of Brockton and senior Kelly Chaisson of Walpole are good examples of what can be achieved.
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"You're 73 and you've just run a 50-mile race? Are you putting me on?"
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Organized clubs and casual groups offer runners the chance to socialize, and to improve.
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LONDON: Britainâs track &amp; field association is turning to a psychology professor to help prepare elite athletes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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Julie Grimm was training for a marathon last April when she started feeling a twinge in her hip. She assumed that some moments in her training would be painful, so she ignored it and kept running.
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The new fitness freak is the 60-year-old who lifts weights every day. Or the 70-year-old who runs marathons. For some, regular exercise becomes the organizing focus of the week, the way raising children and building a risumi used to be.
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Our series of trivia questions about the incoming freshman class continues: Who was a walk-on football player at Florida State University, where he played wide receiver and was sometimes aligned in practice against future NFL star Deion Sanders?  Jason Altmire, D-Pa. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa Heath Shuler, D-N.C. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio
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BOILING SPRINGS, Pa. - More than 500 people hike the entire Appalachian Trail, which runs from Maine to Georgia, each year. Ron Zaleski has been trying to accomplish the feat barefoot. His goal is to bring attention to the need for combat veterans to receive counseling.
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When the first Marine Corps Marathon took place, in 1976, the oldest runner to finish the 26.2-mile race was 58 years old. On the race's 30th anniversary last year, the oldest finisher was 82 -- one individual's testament to how Americans are aging differently than they used to.