Hi, this is Debbie Boyles, coach at Mojo for Running with podcast number 48. Trail running

Part 2. Now part one was a few weeks ago and in that podcast I just basically explained why I would love to see everybody

become a trail runner at least for part of their training because there are so many things to gain from it.

So please, if you haven't heard that podcast, I would love it if you listen to that.

But it doesn't matter if you listen to this one first.

But here I want to give you in this podcast a lot of specifics about things to consider when you start trail running.

First of all,

it's important that you accept that at some point you will fall. It's a given. One of my runners recently said he wanted to try trail running. He'd been wanting to try it for a while, but because

of his busy racing schedule, he had been waiting because if he did fall and had even a slight injury, it would interrupt his training and might mess up his road races.

So anyway, we had left the trail and we were headed out. It was one of my group's weekend runs.

And he said, Deb, you lead the way because I've run here many

times, but I've never been on the trails. So I did. And a few minutes later, we left the dirt trail.

There's a hard packed dirt trail and we headed into the single track. Well, about a half mile in.

Now, mind you, I was going pretty slow, deliberately, because that's the way you

should start out with trail running, especially if you're not used to it, because you have to be

careful, you have to watch, and you don't want to fall. But he noticed that I was going slower,

and he says, Deb, are you going slow on purpose? And I said, yeah, because I don't want you to fall,

which was exactly the

reason. Well, about two minutes later, although I had not sped up, I heard a thud and a few expletives.

Yep, he had hit the ground. His only injury was a stubbed toe, but it was clearly painful.

Yet, Jerry was up in a few seconds and ready to continue.

Then, several minutes later, he went down again,

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