Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Average Joggler
I was reading Ugly Toes today and saw MG wrote
“Another 3 mile boring treadmill run this morning. Yawn.”
I too have been feeling the dullness of the treadmill lately. This is even despite the fact that I’m joggling on the treadmill.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Treadmill running doesn’t have to be [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2007 by Average Joggler
For some people running gets a bit dull. To be great you have to log hundreds, even thousands, of miles a year. To fight the boredom, Carthage College sophomore, Tyler Wishau has incorporated joggling into many of his cross country and track workouts. His joggling skills have improved so much that he [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Average Joggler
For serious joggling, you should have a variety juggling balls. Each set has a specific purpose in terms of training. Here are just a few examples.
Racing juggling balls
The juggling balls or bean bags you use for racing should be light enough so they don’t tire out your arms but heavy enough so they [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Average Joggler
It’s been a while since posting an update to the joggling streak so here it is for the curious.
After reading the story about John Chandler’s 25 year running streak, I thought it would be fun to see how long a joggler could go. That was January 15th, 2007 and I’ve joggled at least one [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2007 by Average Joggler
Frequent readers of Just Your Average Joggler know my desire to live to 107. You also might know of my penchant for conducting experiments on myself. For example, there was the time I went an entire week without spending any money and the time I ate only nuts for a week. Maybe [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Average Joggler
Previously on JYAJ, we featured a story about Brad Alsop who was running 131 marathons in 131 days. Well, I was curious to see how he did and went back to his website to see.
He made it! 131 marathons in 131 days. He ran every day from July 4th to November 11 [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2007 by Average Joggler
Since I’m a chemist I read lots of science stories. And a story about an obscure world record a couple of chemists set, reminded me of a few other interesting records I’ve read and been meaning to pass along. Here they are.
Chemists set chemical bond world record
Chemists from the University of Delaware set [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2007 by Average Joggler
We spend a lot of time on this blog giving tips on how to run and how to joggle. Well, here is a resource for all the casual jugglers and juggler wannabes out there.
Learn to juggle resources
1. Juggling is a snap. They’ve changed it a bit since I first reviewed this juggling [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Average Joggler
In doing a little research on 100 mile ultras, two blog posts caught my eye. The first was on by Carey who published answers to some FAQs about running a 100 miler. These were based on a list put together by Davy Crockett. Both of these guys have done multiple ultras and [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2007 by Average Joggler
Imagine this.
You spend 8 hours, 23 minutes and 52 seconds running and juggling your way to joggling world record glory. You take over 80,000 steps and make that many throws and catches. You burn over 7500 calories while taking in only about 2000.
You’re weight change…+3 pounds.
That’s right, you actually GAIN weight by [...]
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