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i've been struggling for a few months now with my runs. i haven't put in any significant distance. my longest run since setting a new personal 15K record at the globe run for home last march was a pathetic 5.5km in june. my training was interrupted by a series of vacations: i did not hit the pavement at all in all of april when i went to japan, ( Read more... )

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immediately after i crossed the finish line of the globe run for home 2010, joan benoit samuelson, the first woman olympic marathon winner, congratulated me for having run my longest distance yet. the accolade isn't completely based on accurate information, but it is partly true. the little over 15 kilometers that i ran yesterday was my longest run ( Read more... )