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Nutrition on the road - The bigger gas stations and those closer to a main highway or busy towns have far better offerings than the small town gas station's shelves stocked with just a few bags of pork rinds and some candy bars. Here are some tips that can help you eat reasonably well from a gas station or vending machine while traveling to your running event.

Running with the silent spectators - During my run I constantly felt this friendly human-like presence but with an awkward silence. It is like running the New York City marathon with silent spectators. Come to think of it, I had run New York City marathons in the eighties where I had found a few sections of the course with silent spectators, but glad to say that I found them vocal and involved during more recent runs.

Iron and runners - Many of today's runners are eating little or no red meat, which is one of the best sources of dietary iron. These athletes are simultaneously consuming less iron. Iron helps transport oxygen from your lungs to your muscles. Iron deficiency contributes to anemia, with symptoms of unusual fatigue during aerobic exercise - or even when climbing a flight of stairs.

How to fuel before running - Too many athletes show up for training, but they don't show up for meals. They might as well not show up for training. So true! Pre-exercise fueling makes a big difference in terms of how well athletes can enhance their performance.

Compression shorts linked to infertility - The increasingly popular use of "compression shorts" underneath more standard athletic attire was studied in a year long retrospective study completed by Harvard trained scientists, Edward Shields and his cohort Elijah Yarnell. Shields and Yarnell studied the sperm count of runners of varying abilities and found one hard fact that served notice: 62% reduction in viable sperm count in those runners wearing compression shorts.

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