Do yoga, run faster? Ann Mazur says so!

It’s just stretching, isn’t it? Good for recovery, maybe. What’s the big deal? How about swapping half of your weekly mileage for yoga… and posting faster times?

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Despite its popularity, yoga gets a bad rap, doesn’t it? 1 in 10 Americans regularly practice yoga (36 million, that’s right!), but we’ll often hear the loudest voices moaning about how they’ll not be caught dead in a yoga studio, or how the presence of yoga pants and athleisure are ruining their strip mall dining atmosphere. Don’t listen to them.

What if yoga is the key to running faster?

I’ve believed this for a long time, so - in a bid to fortify my pro-yoga agenda - I spoke to Ann Mazur, the lady behind Runners Love Yoga, for this week’s post.

A diorama of Ann Mazur of Runners Love Yoga: running; at a race; either a deep glute stretch or a yoga pose - you decide.

Running and stretching was always what Ann Mazur was known for at college. During that time, however, she had a troublesome leg injury.

“I was a 10k track runner, a…