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Old 02-22-2008, 09:39 PM   #12 (permalink)
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On the street you would be requiring more finesse from your limbs just by navigating the various ground conditions; stepping over curbs, going around slow people, leaping over dog poop You would be sending more blood flow to the smaller stabilizer muscles in your legs. Whether it makes a cardiovascular difference, I don't know, but it makes an overall fitness difference for sure.
Time to use a phrase I've learned in Economics: Ceteris paribus - "all other things being equal." That means no slow people, dog poop, falling meteorites... etc.

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For those of you who run - did any of you get shin pain when starting out and how do you overcome that?
Sounds like shin splints.

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