Monthly Archives: June 2012

Running Style and Injuries

The Science section of The New York Times today featured a column about how changing your stride may help to prevent running injuries. The writer, Tara Parker-Pope, noted how runners these days are far more fixated on achieving proper form than, say, improving their overall performance. In recent years, the

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My Rocky Road

I thought it was time to provide another progress report on my recovery from dual arthroscopic hip surgeries last year (left side: July; right side: December). So how am I doing? Well, it all depends on which day that question is asked. I had a pretty long stretch of feeling

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Running Holiday

Today marks the fourth annual National Running Day. It’s held on the first Wednesday of every June, for the uninformed. If they can have a National Doughnut Day (you missed it; that was June 1st) or a Banana Split Day (on June 8th), why not celebrate something that helps to promote health and well-being,

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Welcome

Most athletes have experienced a “second wind,” that jolt of energy and strength that allows us, enervated and dispirited, to carry on. But sometimes our bodies cannot recover on their own – we need outside help so we can catch our “third wind.”

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