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so they will produce the training effect. So workout

and enjoy yourself! I was very blessed to be a teacher

by profession. That enabled me to have a schedule
like a school child. I could then come home from

school and go out and play just like a child. In my

case I’d go off for a six or eight mile run. I just loved
it. One of my favorites was an 8 mile loop that came

back to our home after running across the top of the

Kensico dam in Valhalla, New York. Or I might run
a similar distance on the horse trails in the

Rockefeller Preserve in Sleepy Hollow, New York and

imagine John D Rockefeller walking on those very
same trails. They are lovely wooded trails, now a

state park, but still used by the Rockefellers to this

day. It was recreation, play and fitness all rolled into
one activity.

The training effect was measured and
quantified by Dr. Kenneth Cooper in his famous

book Aerobics. In fact, the word aerobics used

commonly in our language today comes from his
research and that book. That book is also given the

credit for starting the running boom, which began

in the 1970s. From the first New York City Marathon,
which happened in 1970 where there were 127

runners, it has grown to a race with in excess of
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