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A third of the way into my marathon training, things could not be more encouraging. My once balky knee (which now, thanks to this encouraging piece, I now blame on running irregularly for seven or eight years) is less balky than my sore butt, which I suspect comes as much from sitting as from running.

The real question, he notes, is whether I just want to complete the marathon, or do I want to set a larger goal? If I want to become a better runner, he told me, the next step is to push myself and hurt a little more.

In fact almost nothing hurts. I’m averaging 35 miles a week, I ran 16 miles a couple of weeks ago at a 10-minute pace, about a minute per mile faster than I would have predicted. I’ve done hill workouts with the New York Flyers running club and a fast, short run with a friend. Except for being tired a fair amount of the time, all the effects are good.

The White House, facing increasing skepticism over President Obama’s call for a public insurance plan to compete with the private sector, signaled Sunday that it was willing to compromise and would consider a proposal for a nonprofit health cooperative being developed in the Senate.
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Prescriptions Blog

A new blog from The New York Times that tracks the health care debate as it unfolds.

The “public option,” a new government insurance program akin to Medicare, has been a central component of Mr. Obama’s agenda for overhauling the health care system, but it has also emerged as a flashpoint for anger and opposition. Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, said the public option was “not the essential element” for reform and raised the idea of the co-op during an interview on CNN.

“The public option, whether we have it or we don’t have it, is not the entirety of health care reform,” the president said. “This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it.”

Mr. Obama himself sought to play down the significance of the public option at a town-hall-style meeting on Saturday in Grand Junction, Colo., when a university student challenged him on how private insurers could compete with the government.

After strongly defending the public plan, the president suggested that he, too, viewed it as only a small piece of a broader initiative intended to control costs, expand coverage, protect consumers and make the delivery of health care more efficient.

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