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All Posts in Category: South Jersey Running Authors

Running isn’t enough! Runners need strength training, too.

It seems ironic, but if you’re training for running—especially long distance—running isn’t enough. Strength training will make the difference between good and great on race day.

Runners tend to do one thing: run. It’s a notorious source of repetitive stress injury and you’re much more likely to get hurt if you don’t do strength training. The bonus, strength training will likely make you faster, too.

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The runner’s nemesis: IT band

Runners love to hate their IT bands. Trouble there can keep you off the road, the runner’s worst nightmare.

Short for iliotibial, the IT is a long band of connective tissue on the outside of each leg, running from hip to knee. When it gets inflamed, it usually causes pain on the outside of the knee. But it can also cause pain at the hip or lower back.

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Running Works – Day Of Distance 2018 – Date Announced – Friday, March 16, 2018 at 8 AM – 4 PM

We know it’s early but we are charged up about keeping running alive and well in our region of South Jersey! All too often we hear running community members say if they would have only known about the Day Of Distance earlier they would have signed up! Well it’s on and the date is Friday, […]

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Local Books About Running – My Race with Diabetes and the Oli and Running: A Love Story: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport

Two local books that we are looking forward to reading recently dropped in local circles and both are written by South Jersey authors!  We highly recommend both of these LOCAL authors who discuss running and life so well! Book 1 – My Race with Diabetes and the Oli Author: Ed Espenshade While growing up in Mount Holly, […]

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