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Enduring Questions: How Lactate Makes A Run Better
By Amby Burfoot on 07/10/2005 09:38:03
It makes your legs burn and can ruin a run, but lactic acid is just misunderstood
endurance potential. The final straw is that those frog muscles were cut off from the rest of the frog, and isolated in a jar. When you and I enter races, we’re allowed to keep our legs attached, including the blood and its refreshing supply of oxygen
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Beginning Running: The First Of Many Miles
By Amby Burfoot on 16/01/2004 14:41:28
RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot with a friendly overview of how to get started and what to expect as a new runner
This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot. You can now preview it, free, for two weeks without risk or obligation. All running programmes for beginners are the same: they move you from walking
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Marathon Training: Smooth and Easy
By Amby Burfoot on 16/01/2004 09:53:14
10 classic marathon Q&As, from training injury-free to overcoming dreaded boredom
the final miles of a marathon, you should be able to run faster.This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot.
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Enduring Questions: The Perfect 30-Minute Session
By Amby Burfoot on 05/05/2005 11:15:27
Pushed for time? Three experts share their best short sessions
Amby Burfoot is Executive Editor of Runner's World USA, and the 1968 Boston Marathon winner Imagine that there was an exercise programme that could guarantee to get you in shape with only three identical 30-minute exercise sessions per week. I
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Enduring Questions: Armstrong vs Marathon: Preview
By Amby Burfoot on 03/07/2006 15:09:52
In the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong devoured riders over 2,000-plus miles. Could he do the same over 26.2? (Non-subscriber preview)
distance race he ever entered as a teenager. He obviously had legs, guts, and stamina from the go.He also won a more recent running race. This time it was a run-bike-run affair called the Dirty Duathlon in Rocky Hill, Texas, back in December 2002
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Double Your Endurance
By Amby Burfoot on 10/05/2005 16:02:25
Introducing the wonders of the running world - seven simple plans to double your endurance
with RUNNER’S WORLD USA Race And Event Promotions Manager Bart Yasso, and first wrote about it nearly a decade ago. Since then, literally thousands of runners have told us, at pacing runs or in e-mails, that the programme has worked for them. With the Yasso
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Enduring Questions: Ageing And Slowing
By Amby Burfoot on 11/05/2006 11:30:06
Did you know that if you can run a four-hour marathon at age 30, you should be able to pip under 4:30 at age 49? Amby Burfoot examines how much you should expect to slow as you age
? On a national level, the numbers are mind-boggling. There is no national database of road race results because over the years anyone trying to compile them would have to deal with millions of times from thousands of races. They would include times from
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Enduring Questions: Marathon Drinking - How Much?
By Amby Burfoot on 07/02/2006 16:10:10
You used to worry about not being hydrated enough. But recent studies say that too much could be far worse. What's the truth?
&E doctors who had been encountering a condition never seen before at road races: overhydration. The runners actually seemed to have consumed too much fluid. In 1985 Noakes published the seminal paper in the field, Water Intoxication: A Possible Complication
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How To Run At Your Ideal Paces
By Amby Burfoot on 01/11/2002 15:55:38
Running fast too slowly and running slowly too fast - it's easy for runners to misjudge their training pace. But with the right guidance, everyone can train more effectively
this VO2max pace. First, it’s not the same as your all-out sprint speed. It’s a pace that you could hold for an 11-minute race. If you chose to sprint for just 30 seconds, say, you could run at a much faster pace. Faster isn’t better, however. The best
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Enduring Questions: Downhill Running
By Amby Burfoot on 09/06/2006 14:51:54
The Boston Marathon drops 480 feet from start to finish, so it should be the fastest, easiest course around, right? Tell that to your trashed quads
still think downhill running is simple. In fact, when the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that it would recognise road racing "world records" for the first time in January 2004, it discounted the Boston Marathon
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