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Tips for Running Your First Marathon

Trifatlete — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:10:29 +0000

When you need a little motivation or inspiration to keep running for your big race bring it all into balance with some of these tips.

Injury & Tips

Trifatlete — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:08:40 +0000

Posted in Thoughts

So you have been good this New Year and are following through with your resolutions. You've run a majority of the days and you feel good. Then while walking down the hallway you feel a slight twinge in you left leg. What the heck is that. Oh no, shin splints. Classic overuse injury. What do you do ?

Cold Weather Running Safety Tips

Trifatlete — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:00:13 +0000

Posted in Thoughts

Running in the winter time isn’t really as bad as it may seem. Sure, there are times when you should not venture out into the storm, but a lot of times it might be a great time for a run. Running through the cold weather can help shake those winter doldrums, improve your energy level, [...]

Exercise Tips

Trifatlete — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:40:31 +0000

Posted in Thoughts

Choose quality over quantity. People often spend hours in the gym rather than focusing on the quality of the exercise they’re performing. Even if you can only allocate ten minutes to exercise, make those ten minutes count. Focus on performing the exercises to the best of your ability. It’s better to spend ten quality minutes [...]

Great Wetsuit Tips

Trifatlete — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:59:00 +0000

Posted in Thoughts

Found this on a forum. Wearing wetsuits and open water swims. 1) In the short distance race it may not be worth wearing the wetsuit depending on water temp and distance 2) Let the wetsuit work for you, don’t fight it. 3) It will take time to adjust to swimming in the wetsuit 4) Pool [...]