0. It occurs to me, that often, what an outsider gets wrong when dabbling in another field isn’t just the complex cutting edge stuff, or the intermediate complexity stuff, but the absolute basics. It’s not that the basics are necessarily simple, it’s just that everyone in the field knows them, having absorbed them from colleagues, […]| Diagram Monkey
Have you ever bonked? Or trained with your terrible friend, the dreadmill? And what about the wall? Have you hit it yet? If you don’t know how to answer because these sentences just don’t make sense in the context, don’t fret. Today, you’ll learn the most common running terms and finally understand the runner lingo. Written & edited by Pavlína […] The post Master the Language of Running: 20 Terms You Need to Know appeared first on The San Francisco Marathon.| The San Francisco Marathon
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