Weekend, 10/13-14/18

190,000 miles and counting: Frank Shorter’s extraordinary running career

Also 70, Ohio Woman Runs Insanely Fast Marathon in Chicago

Life Lessons From Eliud Kipchoge

What do your $250 sneakers say about you?

Jen A. Miller/NYT: Running

800-meter Olympic champ Mims remains pioneer 50 years later

Like: University of Virginia President leading a morning run every week.

Stink alert: What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia

It’s up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don’t even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we ‘fail’ to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything–obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. ~Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Photos from Santa Clarita, 2011: Up The Beast. Down The Viper.