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The Ultimate Runner's Survival Kit

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What’s in your runner’s survival kit? It’s a question I posed on my Instagram page last month. What do we need to survive our running journey? Is it coffee, or a running partner? Chapstick, or anti-chafing cream?

I’d love your input. What gets you through a tough run or a long training cycle? What’s your saving grace? Whether it’s big or small, literal or figurative, what keeps you running, even when the running gets tough?

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The Ultimate Runner’s Survival Kit: What’s in Yours?

BUILD YOUR OWN RUNNER’S SURVIVAL KIT GIft for Runners

Need a gift for your favorite runner to celebrate an accomplishment or to kick off a new training cycle? Buy a gift basket, fill it with some of these runner’s necessities, and label it the Runner’s Survival Kit. Include an iTunes or Amazon music gift card, a motivating running book, and some of these inexpensive goodies, and it will be a gift that any runner will surely love.

What did I miss? What’s in your runner’s survival kit? Let me know in the comments.

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