Whether a long slow run or a fast sprint, it is important to stretch before and after you exercise, experts say.
Whether a long slow run or a fast sprint, it is important to stretch before and after you exercise, experts say. ( Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

There are pluses and minuses to both fast sprints and long endurance runs. And just recently came some encouraging news for time pressed New Yorkers if your aim is simply a healthier body: you can get there as a “weekend warrior” with two good days of exercise a week.

Fast Run, Slow Run, Five Day, Two Day: The Important Thing is to Keep Moving
03 Apr 2025 | 12:22
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The New York Road Runners Club has just waded through 200,00 applicants to choose the lucky tens of thousands of entrants for next November’s NYC Marathon. And you can bet each and every one of them is planning to run as fast as they possibly can.

Should you?

In the end, the answer to what kind of running...

A small force of 14 federal agents pursuing the billions ripped off from the US Government during the pandemic was shut down by DOGE on March 28. The agency had already recovered more than three times its annual budget and had nearly a 100 percent conviction rate against fraud perpetrators in federal court.
A small force of 14 federal agents pursuing the billions ripped off from the US Government during the pandemic was shut down by DOGE on March 28. The agency had already recovered more than three times its annual budget and had nearly a 100 percent conviction rate against fraud perpetrators in federal court. ( Photo: Wikimedia commons)

Agency That Successfully Prosecuted Pandemic Fraud Is Casualty of Trump’s Cuts

A little-known agency of the US Government was shuttered last week. It went largely unnoticed amidst the deluge of reports...

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31 Mar 2025 | 01:19
Charles Osborne started hiccupping after an accident on a farm in Nebraska when he was 29 years old and he did not stop for 68 years. His hiccups finally stopped in 1990 when he was 96 years old, and a year later he died of natural causes.
Charles Osborne started hiccupping after an accident on a farm in Nebraska when he was 29 years old and he did not stop for 68 years. His hiccups finally stopped in 1990 when he was 96 years old, and a year later he died of natural causes. ( Photo: X Seriously Strange)

One Man Hiccuped for 68 Yrs; Doctors Cannot Explain Why He, or Anyone Else, Hiccups

Hiccups are a medical mystery, a clear condition with confusing causes. And nobody can definitely say why some of the suggested...

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28 Mar 2025 | 02:32
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