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What makes Deena special? Check out a bunch of cool videos on the RW site, shot as she prepares for the Olympic Trials

Posted by simon on 4/6/2008 on simon's blog

"There's no secret in our training programme", says Deena "...what really makes the athlete stand out from the next -- at an elite level -- is the amount of time you put into the exemplary things, the ancillary work, the stretching, massage therapy, the work in the gym, all the other things to make us a more well-rounded athlete."

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Big stretch

Posted by andersonraces on 6/29/2007 | Groups: Pace 5K - Minneapolis
Big stretch

From the 2006 Pace 5K race in Minneapolis. Photo by wkphotography.com

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Peroneal tendonitis

http://www.yourrunning.com/forum-peroneal_tendonitis

Q: Has anyone had this injury before? It's what my doctor thinks I've got. Any advice on how to treat it and promote it's healing would be very appreciated. It started hurting about three weeks ago during a long trail run. I've been trying to lay off it ever since, but I ran about two hours last Saturday, because it was feeling better and I'm afraid I may have set it back. I guess it's the bike for me for a while. It's very frustrating.

The Bobby & Simon show: a cure for a stretching fetish

Posted by simon on 5/17/2007

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First run this very short clip from Denver's Channel 2 News without any sound. ... What you'll see is Dr Sir Robert McGee, PhD & Bar, mental health advisor to the elite, explaining how he intends to treat a runner with a sad fetish for wearing extraordinarily brightly colored running shoes and attempting to pull them off his feet with a strap. Note the obsessive, continual stretching motions. Well, that's what it felt like. We were trapped at the studio for nearly THREE HOURS while the TV people got increasingly hysterical, in a very serious way, about a SWAT team festival at Boulder High School triggered by a sighting of two men allegedly wearing camo. Bobby's very important message -- that pre-race stretching is guaranteed to switch off your muscles -- did eventually get an airing. All two minutes of it. (And those are Newtons I'm wearing :) )