Posts tagged Running
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The 150 Challenge
I read about ultrarunner Marco Consani’s personal challenge to run 5 kilometres a day in November. Marco took on the challenge during an off-season period of inactivity and it had a huge impact on his morale and health. He now encourages people to take part in the Marcothon, a 5km (or 25 min) a day challenge, each December — the month most people’s health and fitness fare badly.
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The fitness bug takes hold
After having booked a hiking trip to Nepal in my early 20s, I began to panic. I had done some light hiking in the past, but never anything like the hard full-day trekking I had just signed up for.
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How I started running
I was in my 20s and I had shelved my social life and returned to university. I loved my degree but I was drowning — it was a double with more contact hours than felt humanly possible. Between lectures; tutorials; assignments and part-time work, my general fitness had declined. Noticeably. A short sprint to catch a tram would leave me feeling faint.