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Training to combat fatigue  By Jason R. Karp, M.S. As featured in the December 2007 issue of Running Times Magazine One of my first encounters with fatigue occurred when I had mononucleosis my senior year in high school (that's what I get for kissing that girl). I was so fatigued that I had to sit in the back of the classroom so I could put my head on my desk and go to sleep--forget about running during track practice. Running, even when healthy, however, represents a different kind of fatiguel: an acute, heavy, dead-legged feeling that makes you want to slow down, stop, and sometimes--usually around mile 22 of the marathon--curl up in a ditch and take a nap. Runners are as intimate with fatigue as football players are with bruises or ballet dancers with blistered toes: Fatigue is an entrance fee to success in our sport. It's also a hot topic of scientific research. From a physiologist's perspective, fatigue is the inability to... Read the full article at: www.runningtimes.com
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