Running can be contagious

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Be careful – running can be contagious! Research based on an online exercise tracking community discovered that runners influence each other’s training practices, even across geographic distance and regardless of variable weather. Results also indicated gains by slower runners influenced those faster (but not the reverse); and that men were influenced by men and women in their network, but that women were influenced only by other women.

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