Baseball is like the Marathon, Toni Reavis Both sports require the ability to endure a long, gruelling task, be it months of training and 26.2 miles of racing, or months of a 162-game season.
How Long Does It Take to Recover From a Marathon? New York Times There’s not much rigorous research on recovery after strenuous exercise, and this aspect of competition is rife with unsubstantiated dogma.
Neuromuscular Fatigue after a Marathon, Runner’s World Even after that soreness is gone, you may not be back to full strength when you try to contract your muscles, because the signal from your brain gets disrupted somewhere before it gets to the muscle.
Massage After a Marathon Puts Runners on Road to Recovery, Broadview University Finishing a marathon isn’t easy. It takes months of mental and physical preparation. If the training isn’t a feat in itself, the actual event is a 26-mile expedition that pushes runners to their brink.
The Dos and Don’ts of Marathon Recovery, Epicurious Runner I’m not a marathon pro, but I’ve run a few of them and I have done my fair share of things wrong. You learn from your mistakes, right?
A ‘marathon taper’ edition of my weekly curation of miscellaneous articles on running:
5 Pre-Marathon Mistakes (and how to avoid them), Runner Academy One way to help make sure you don’t jeopardize your race at the end of your preparation is to have an awareness of common pre-marathon mistakes that are often made during the taper period before your marathon, and how to avoid them.
It’s taper time: What that means for you, Canadian Running For many of us training for a fall marathon, the arrival of October means it’s taper time. This is when we scale back training and rest up for the big day.
Peaking for Performance: Two Weeks to Go, Running Shoe Guru In the last two weeks before your marathon, you will need to cut your volume and intensity a bit to bring about an optimum peak. This is the time to get extra sleep, plenty of good nutrition, and run as relaxed in your workouts as possible.
My weekly curation of miscellaneous articles on running:
Seven Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Running, Strength Running
It isn’t hard to get started running, but once you get into the swing of things, it’s easy to injure yourself or ignore little things that make you a lot better. Coach Jason Fitzgerald shares some of his secrets.
Secrets of Uninjured Runners, SKORA
We have all known the endurance athlete who never seems to become injured. There is also the athlete who has been running for three years and has spent more time injured than able to run. What does the healthy runner know that the other does not?
