Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Thu Dec 9th, 2010, 0 comments
I had hoped to blog about the start of my half marathon training in a bit more of an upbeat note but I find myself in Week 2 completely knocked out by a virus. I am just beginning to claw my way back to life ...
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Thu Sep 30th, 2010, 1 comments
As a runner, one of the things I look for in my own running is fluidity.  I want running to feel fluid, not just a series of lifts or swings or stances or whatever else I might have been working on while learning the Chi Running technique. Of course all of this is necessary in [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Tue Sep 14th, 2010, 0 comments
Those of you who follow my blog will know that I have always wanted to run a marathon. I was unable to take part in my first planned marathon earlier this year and so I deferred my place to April 2011. Training was due to start in November. However, I have been doing a lot [...]
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Posted by Michelle Muldoon on Tue Sep 7th, 2010, 0 comments
I’ve been on holiday and so was my running for a lot of it!  I did a lot of driving so my body was screaming for a run when I finally got the opportunity. Sitting in a car for long periods of time, or anywhere for that matter, does not do our bodies any good. [...]
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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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