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Why you should consider buddying-up on your next run

Posted April 29th, 2007 at 12:00 PM by Lisa Cieplechowicz

Section: Running & Training, Motivation, Training Tips, Health & Fitness, Exercise

For most people running is a solitary venture, but buddying-up, either with a four-legged friend or acquaintance, is actually beneficial.

For starters, having someone depending on you is motivational. It’s easy to make excuses for yourself, but it’s harder to cancel on a friend, especially when you’ve both cleared your schedules to make time for each other. As a matter of fact, recent studies have shown people who run with a group or partner are more likely to stick with it in the long run.

Besides the motivation, studies have also shown that running in pairs or groups provides greater health benefits. Either way you’re getting a physical workout, yet scientists now believe that the social aspect of running with a partner can help stimulate growth of new brain neurons and provide better stress relief than running in isolation. In other words, by partnering up you are able to reap greater physical and mental benefits from your running workouts!
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