All runners, but especially beginning runners, can be vulnerable to overtraining. Especially in the winter when there's bad weather (like now) it can be tempting to overdo it as soon as the weather improves.

It's hard, but try to resist, and train smart. For inspiration for new runners, new marathoners, and runners coming back after injury, check out an article by Butler University fitness director Adrian Shepard. He reminds all of us runners, and other athletes, that overtraining can be counterproductive because you don't give your body a chance to adapt to a new level of fitness if you keep adding more and more miles, weights, or whatever, without taking a few steps back (that's what "easy day" means on your training schedule).

Here's the article, which also contains a link to a youtube video of Shepard discussing overtraining.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/over-training-counterproductive-says-butler-university-fitness-director32

Happy Running!

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