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Lead Stories: Thursday, August 21, 2008

Marathon Participants
Given the Run-Around
with Portable Audio Devices

Posted November 9th, 2007 at 3:26 PM by Megan Hueter

Section: News & Results, Gear & Apparel, Gadgets & Acces., Motivation, Music

All year long, thousands of runner train for this time of year: marathon season. You see them preparing themselves everywhere: running around the neighborhood, down the highway, even at the gym. Runners spend so much time preparing for fear that they will hit the wall after twenty miles.

This year, however, that is not their only concern. The New York Times reported on October 31st that USA Track & Field, the national governing body for running, banned the use of headphones and portable audio players at its official races in order to ensure safety and to prevent runners from having a competitive edge.

However, banning the use of headphones is easier said than done, especially on races that are 26 miles long, like the New York City Marathon. Some marathons do not police their fields or follow through on the rule of disqualifying contestants who use iPods and other audio players.

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Tips for preventing your travel plans from interfering with your training goals

Posted June 8th, 2007 at 9:00 AM by Bridget Sullivan

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

For those of us who travel for work, it can be a challenge to fit in our workouts. Over the last few months, this has become an issue for me as I travel at least once a month for 2/3 days, and I am training for a Half-Ironman in August.

However, after some trial and error, travel no longer gets in the way of my training. Here are some of my tips:

1) Make sure your hotel has a gym: Nowadays, most hotels do have gyms and you can generally check out what they have online before you go. While you don’t always have a choice, if you do, then find one that is open late and has a sufficient amount of equipment for the number of occupants in the hotel…

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Is my New Year’s resolution to get in shape worth the effort?

Posted December 29th, 2006 at 12:00 PM by Martha Jones

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss

Being out-of-shape is almost as strong a risk factor for a heart attack as smoking. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (December 21, 2005) shows that being out-of-shape markedly increases your risk for being fat, storing most of your fat in your belly, having a high bad LDL cholesterol and high blood pressure, and having low levels of the good HDL cholesterol.

We live in a society in which 91 percent of the population develops high blood pressure, 78 percent will have high cholesterol, and 35 percent are diabetic. More than 50 percent of us die of heart attacks and strokes from these risk factors. Doctors no longer think of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes as just being due to our genes. We now consider these diseases to be caused by our behavior.
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Tips on how to succeed with this New Year’s Resolution

Posted December 22nd, 2006 at 4:00 PM by Adam Weiss

Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss

It’s that time of year again. No, I am not talking about decorating your home with Christmas lights. Nor am I talking about joining the masses in line at the mall for the newest television, video game or toy that hits the market in time for the holidays.

So what am I talking about? Making that NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!

You are probably thinking that you will make the same resolution that you have made for the past five years, but this time you are really serious about sticking to it.
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