Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Mon Jun 28th, 2010, 2 comments
As a distance runner and student of running technique, I have had to learn to love running slower. Last year, when I first started to experiment with running to heart rate, I found that I had to run a lot slower than I was used to in order to keep my heart rate down. I [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Sun Jun 13th, 2010, 6 comments
There is much debate in the running community about barefoot running these days . The author of Born to Run, Chris McDougall, a book largely responsible for the increased interest in barefoot running, was in London this week and gave a talk hosted by Terra Plana. It was interesting to learn that he does not [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Fri May 7th, 2010, 6 comments
I haven’t blogged for a while, very sadly my Mum passed away a month ago from breast cancer, she was too young to go and still had a lot of living left to do. My family and I are devastated but we have to get used to learning to live without her. I was in [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Wed Mar 24th, 2010, 0 comments
Running is not usually known as an aid to flexibility, in fact it is notoriously known for tightening us up: tight hamstrings, tight calves, tight hip flexors and a tight back. Well the good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. Seven years ago, almost to the day, I bent down to [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Mon Feb 22nd, 2010, 0 comments
As those of you who have been reading my blog will know, I had hoped to run my first marathon in April this year. I have been following the ChiRunning Beginner Marathon Program which I was really enjoying but I simply wasn’t able to get in the required long runs due to circumstances beyond my [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Fri Jan 29th, 2010, 2 comments
Its week 13 of marathon training and I have managed to keep up with the marathon training plan more or less. I’m not quite where I should be in terms of the length of my longer runs due to other demands on my time and as the long run is the most important part of marathon training, [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Fri Jan 8th, 2010, 1 comments
It’s week 10 of marathon training. The weather is conspiring against me and the ‘big freeze’ has made following the marathon training plan challenging to say the least. I was away for Christmas and I brought my beloved NB790s with me not thinking about the weather. As much as I love these shoes, they have [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Thu Dec 17th, 2009, 1 comments
Life has been pretty stressful over the last week or so. Of course, the time of year doesn’t help either. A bit of fire fighting needed to be done and too much time and energy has been spent on it but sometimes you must protect the reputations of others and stand up for what you [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Wed Dec 9th, 2009, 0 comments
A student said to me during the week, when we were talking about their running form, “I don’t think I can change.” I just want to say to anyone out there learning ChiRunning that you absolutely can change. You have it within your power. If you are diligent about practising the form focuses as often [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Fri Dec 4th, 2009, 0 comments
It’s week 4 of marathon training and it’s not been a good week as I managed to pick up one of the many bugs which seem to be affecting everyone I know, as a result I wasn’t able to run for a week – a whole week! Running is part of my life and now that I [...]
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