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(5) gloves and mitts: mitts give you better insulation. And you’ll need it on cold days. I put on gloves below 50, and by the time it’s 30 or less, I need really warm gloves.
I have some basic standards (they change with precipitation levels): [...]

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – FWIW, Bob Glover certainly hasn’t given us a break from long intervals (1-2.4 miles) and tempos this summer, in fact it seems we seldom do anything else these days. A lot of our people are training for the NY marathon. [...]

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Re: am i an idiot? A: In short, yes.

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I’m sure your black belt looks lovely when you’re dancing in front of the bedroom mirror, with the wife’s clothes on.
Undoubtedly, you’re speaking from first-hand experience.

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from alt.support.single-parents, ages ago.
wow.  you’ve got a good memory.  that was ages ago, certainly. [...]

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Super performance and goretex or micro fleece or whatever never appealed to me.  Call me 20th century, but I’ve always liked a good pair of cotton sweat pants and a sweat shirt.  One of the reasons I don’t like the so-called performance stuff is because of all the dang noise the [...]

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Heck, you could run naked in Chicago in the morning and it wouldn’t make a difference.  With 37,500 registered the race will be packed.  What a waste.  Too bad they sold out for the almighty buck.  It was actually a good race a few years ago. When I ran it [...]

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Happy New Year, gang: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am gradually increasing my long runs…. adding about five minutes every two weeks or so. Whatever feels comfortable. I’m currently at 1:20, and am shooting for around 1:45, my "goal" time for a half [...]

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Happy New Year, gang: I am gradually increasing my long runs…. adding about five minutes every two weeks or so. Whatever feels comfortable. I’m currently at 1:20, and am shooting for around 1:45, my "goal" time for a half marathon in May. Then I’ll [...]

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Currently I am at 22 miles per week and would like to increase it to 35 mpw. What is the best approach to increasing weekly mileage. Thanks

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        Increase the weekly mileage slowly so that you never add more than 10% from one week to another.  Then every fourth [...]

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I think it was PU’s Jeff who responded to a (lack of) motivation thread by saying something like, "Just get out and run."  Too true. — Patrick
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I am always amazed when the days when I am pushing my unmotivated self out [...]

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Hi Everyone.  I spent most of my time on the rec.pets.dogs.behavior newsgroup.  I hate it when people post a question to which the answer is only several posts earlier.  So I searched the posts on this newsgroup and although I did see posts about the cold weather, I couldn’t find any [...]