Interesting

I was reading the May 2010 issue of Runner's World this morning (I'm super behind with them) and ran across an interesting piece of information:

"If you're running at least every other day, your body will adapt to a more efficient running pattern, which eliminates extraneous motion and generates some small time improvement."

I find this interesting because I didn't really notice this from past long-distance training.  I've run two half-marathons before, but maybe the circumstances weren't right to test this theory.  After the first one, my next race was a 5k.  I did it while I was training for a triathlon, and while my fitness level should have been overall better, I was tired from the training when I did it (also, it warmed up even though it was in the winter in Florida...never good for me).  After the last half-marathon, I didn't really run anything.  So maybe this time around, I will see a difference!  I don't really expect to improve all that much, time-wise, since marathon training is more about endurance and distance, and that's fine too.