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    Lockdown Gains

    Jul 02, 2020 4 minutes

    Discover three lockdown tips that could improve your performance.

    Nearly all runners in the world have experienced some sort of stay-home order in the first half of 2020. Races have been cancelled or postponed.

    As I write this in early April, my own training has been altered for a month now. My athletes all had awesome races scheduled on their April – June calendar: Ultra-Trail Drakensberg, Two Oceans Marathon, and Comrades Marathon among them.

    As a runner and coach, it hasn’t been an enjoyable experience. But as a sports scientist, I was curious about the physiological and psychological effects of the interruption

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