{"id":3637,"date":"2009-06-26T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:27:46","slug":"two-fitness-articles-that-say-less-is-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3637","title":{"rendered":"Two fitness articles that say less is more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first one says you can do a better marathon if you walk part of it (FULL DISCLOSURE -&#0160;I have friends who&#39;ve run marathons &#8211; Mike Sprag who we knew from Cayman did a 2:48 &#8211; and I&#39;ve been to the NY Marathon &#8211; when Spragg ran. I ahve never had any desire &#8211; nor will I ever have eny desire &#8211; to run a marathon.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/02\/health\/02well.html?_r=2&amp;ref=health\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Well &#8211; Better Running Through Walking &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there&#39;s this article &#8211; which I really doubt &#8211; about interval training. It&#39;s only one study, but probably worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/24\/can-you-get-fit-in-six-minutes-a-week\/?em\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Can You Get Fit in Six Minutes a Week? &#8211; Well Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first one says you can do a better marathon if you walk part of it (FULL DISCLOSURE -&#0160;I have friends who&#39;ve run marathons &#8211; Mike Sprag who we knew from Cayman did a 2:48 &#8211; and I&#39;ve been to the NY Marathon &#8211; when Spragg ran. I ahve never had any desire &#8211; nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13827,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/13827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}