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By Kimberly Clark
It’s so easy to think that the only way to get better at running is by running, but sometimes, that can be further from the truth.
I know in the time of my life where I piled miles on miles on miles (80 mile weeks, and now I’m wondering- how did I even have time for my job?!) — I focused on just running to get better. And what do you know? I got progressively worse as the season went on. But like the frog you put in the pot of warm water that you set to boil, when you’re in the middle of regressing, you don’t quite realize until it’s way too late.
As runners who are looking to get faster, we think— if we just focus on doing more running and more intense running— then we’ll get faster. But sometimes more work isn’t the answer.
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