This is an interesting thread. To be honest I've wondered about some of these very things when I was running before getting pregnant.

My new thing is trail running, where there is hills and stuff. Does anyone know if you can get platued (sp?) by doing the same route all the time? I often wondered if I wasn't doing enough, or if I should do different things (it was a 6 mile route).

I don't really understand the difference in training to run (IE: HITT and stuff), does anyone have a good resource to research this stuff? I don't even think I'd know where to start.

My "running" exsisted of running up to maybe 7 miles MAX, but I averaged probably more like 4.5 -6 miles 3 days a week. Sometimes I went to the gym and lifted.... I preferred running though when it was nice and cool. I found that I'd get burnt out with more. I was just wondering if that is why my weight loss stalled at about 15 + lbs of goal.

Anyways thanks.