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I’ve been back at Bikram a few times a week for about 3 weeks now, due to my stress fracture. I used to do Bikram 4+ times per week for nearly a year at a stretch. It used to always be a constant struggle against the clock. “Can I make it through [...]

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If you run, you are less likely to be deader sooner than the non-running folks are likely to be., according to a new study.  And, by “deader sooner,” I mean deader nower-ish….
Read it yourself and decide.
Runses or no runses.  Death be a things that somtimes you no get to.  Nices thing for nicer peoples, yes?*
 
*FitLifeSF reminds you [...]

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Seven months ago, I joined Athletic Endurance to have a consistent, solid training schedule, make new friends among runners, have a reason to wake up at the ungodly hour of 6:30 AM on Saturday mornings.
One month ago, I stopped five miles into a ten-mile run with a gasp and a lightning bolt of pain.
Three weeks [...]

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So, no, I didn’t run anything this year, though I’d secretly harbored hopes to lumber through a half on my ten-mile-max long-run schedule. Nor did contributor RocketGirl (Jody/Muppet.) I was riding the pine with over-aspirational training and a stress fracture, she with a wonderfully though-out training plan that culminated with a sucky luck-of-the-draw [...]

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Yeah, yeah, so… I broke my foot. Technically, I have a “stress fracture of the second metatarsal.” Which I’m thrilled to report is also called the “Beckham Bone” after one David Beckham who broke his in a slide tackle trying to win the World Cup. I just broke mine being a dumbfuck.
Here’s the thing… everything [...]

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