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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 ?

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“Make running a habit. Set aside a time solely for running. running is more fun if you don’t have to rush through it.” -Jim Fixx

So this is a good time to start your new exercise regime, right ? It’s the first of the year and you are ready to take on the challenge. You want to be a runner or if you are a runner you want to get that elusive PR.

So you are now starting out a new running program and you think to yourself that in order to be a runner you need to run and run a lot. Now, one misconception about running is that running every day is going to make you a better runner.

The first thing I had to do was learn that I could do it – Sue Stricklin, runner

When your young and just beginning, you have a dream, an unrealistic dream, of what you can achieve. Follow that dream, hold onto it. Don’t let it disappear.

People today tend to overdo. This applies especially, I think, to distance runners and the training they do. What you should do is develop a training program that suits your physical makeup, your stamina, and your ability as a runner. -Gayle Barron, marathoner

“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”
-John Bingham, running speaker and writer