Inertia – Friend or Foe? Both!

I DIDN’T WANNA DO IT. Yesterday was tempo day on my training calendar. One-mile warmup, followed by five miles at a medium-hard effort, ending with a one-mile cooldown. Simple and straightforward. And a bitch. Cuz I don’t like it, even at medium-hard effort. What’s that? Depends on how I feel at the time. Last week …

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Habit: A Three-Year Itch?

Last year I was pacing the 10K at one of the local Kona Running Company events. I'd been assigned the "1st Time 10K" sign, and having lost the runners I started with, I was looking for some more first-timers to run with. About halfway along I came upon a middle-aged couple chugging along and asked them …

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