Don't Push Yourself Too Much

One of the common pitfalls for the newbie runner is to start from doing nothing to relatively heavy training in a short period of time. If you're not giving your body lots of time to build up your running, you might be in for a stress fracture.

Going with ...

If you get excited and take on too much, you'll be spending your energy all over the place.

Spend most of your time on the right things and the rest takes care of itself. It's not enough to just 'work hard'.

Granted, if you’re from America, you are up against a tough culture, work-wise. We have a hard time with work-life balance, plus some of the least vacation time of any developed country, as well as, zero paid maternity leave, and usually crappy allotted sick time as well. So, this is a difficult ...