14D – Sports Science Shorts: Are Running and Finishing a Marathon the Same?

14D
Is Pearl Izumi right: “marathons have changed from a race to run to a box to be checked”? Is Associative or Dissociative Attention better for running and how does it depend on pace?
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Attentional focus in endurance activity: new paradigms and future directions
A social-cognitive perspective of perceived exertion and exertion tolerance
Marathon Training Academy podcast

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