The Adventures of an Average Athlete

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On the DL Without Being Injured

September 8, 2014 By: Pahla B - Adventures of an Average Athlete

Being anemic is weird.  I mean, I’ve spent plenty of time over the last eight years not running because of one injury or another, so you’d think I’d be totally familiar with this whole “sitting around the house” thing.  But, the problem is, I totally can run.  Except when I can’t. Running really isn’t the […]

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The Summer of Suck (and a Belated Race Report)

August 20, 2014 By: Pahla B - Adventures of an Average Athlete

So a couple of weeks ago, I ran this 5K and it was pretty awesome, but I totally didn’t blog about it.  Oops! Happy to be finished! I ran it with a client of mine, pacing her to a huge PR, which was very exciting and very nearly puke-worthy (for her).  She did such a […]

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Recovery Week

January 19, 2014 By: Pahla B - Adventures of an Average Athlete

Ordinarily, I’m no great fan of recovery week.  In fact, I generally spend the week bitching and moaning about how much I hate recovery, how much it sucks to cut back on mileage, why it’s lame to run an easy pace all week, wah, wah, wah-itty wah.  You know, missing the entire point of the […]

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