The Benefits of Having a Running Partner

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Author: Laura Davis

Having running buddy depending upon you to turning up and knowing that you will let them down will encourage you to turn up, you will feel obliged to turn up whether you like it or not. Making a pact at the start of your training promising to motivate one another during each run will lead to persistency and ensuring you both encourage one another when you do not want to go. It is proven that having a training partner will make runners last in the longer term.

Ease Into Running – From a Former Fat Girl’s Perspective

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Running 101 – How To Ease Into Running, From A Former Fat Girl’s Perspective
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lisa_Buschlen]Lisa Buschlen

I’ve always been more of the “sofa athlete” than actual athlete, but beginning in my mid-30’s, I realized that not only had I retained all of my high school fat, but over the years, those fat cells had made many friends, and they were all beginning to congregate in the most unappealing places.

Whatever meager metabolic magic that had worked to keep me toggling between a size 8 and 10 throughout my 20’s, had apparently felt a little “crowded” by all the new fat cells, so it moved elsewhere, and left no forwarding address.