Last month I took part in my second “Prova 9 de julho” race in São Paulo. I had signed up a few months before with good intentions, but my training for the event was non-existent at best. If I was to follow the logic of homeopathy, less is more, although if that was truly the case I was in danger of being overtrained without having performed any actual training. The race organisers had taken the rather unprecedented step of handing out the participation medals the day before,