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Enjoying Running
Liz best of luck with Chicago. The atmosphere on the day will carry you round I'm sure. Remember its better to be 90% fit and 100% healthy on the day than the other way around :-)
On the subject of enjoying running, I've found that constantly doing road races can become a bit tedious especially if you've done the same race a couple of times. So I've tried to do some other sorts of races.
Cross country anyone? Good fun, hard work!
Trail races. My club seem to do a lot of these which basically involve running round the countryside on tracks/footpaths following a list of instructions.
The beauty of this is that it doesn't matter how fast you go if you take a wrong turn you could scupper your time. Its not uncommon for slower runners to win these just because they've been accurate and haven't vanished off on a 20 minute wild goose chase! It also helps to know your left from your right (which is unfortunatly my problem!).
Anyway the other thing is that you get to see parts of the countryside that you wouldn't normally go to to have a look at. Well worth doing for that reason alone and they tend to be a bit cheaper than road races.
Don't know if these suggestions are anyuse hope they are.
Cheers
Parky
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