“Come on, last one!” I mutter as I hype myself up to start the last interval. It would be only 30 seconds up that hill, but those 30 seconds seemed as impossible now as winning a 24-hour race once seemed. While I had accomplished the latter just a few months before this hill workout, I […]
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“The most important thing now is to get mileage in and stay injury-free.” I kept repeating this sentence as I slogged up the tiny hill in my local park, wondering what passing runners would think of me and my snails-pace. The urge to speed up and prove to myself (and those other runners) that I
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I stared at the screen of my laptop, hesitating for a moment. I filled out the form, added my bank details, and confirmed that all the data was correct. All that was left was to click “register.” I smiled as I pressed down on the mouse and confirmed my registration. I would finally run an
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