Jane Brody/NYT: How to Increase Your Chances of Having a Long, Healthy Life
These 10 things all happened at Oregon’s historic Hayward Field. …Check the clip from Animal House, filmed in 1977. It looks very different today.
Austin O’Neil goes 3:56 at the State Street Mile, first sub four by a Santa Clarita native. More. …Course details. …Race video. …Rich Burns, another Hart alum, ran a 4:19 in the 1500 when in his fifties.
NPR: Why Children Aren’t Behaving, And What You Can Do About It
Rupp: 16 x 400m
Jeff Sather, the OTC Masters coach, will give us a surprise session with 500 intervals. …Not fun.
News you can use. From Harvard. Understanding the stress response
Jen A. Miller/NYT: Running for Fun, Your Gross Running Gear, and other fun stuff
Magness Speaks — Recovery Addict: How overemphasizing recovery creates dependency
Ken Goe on Phil Knight, Hayward Field, etc.
Pros recall their favorite races at Hayward Field
Serious Hayward devotees have this book. Great photos. Prose by Kenny Moore.
How cool is this? We’re going.
Costco Is a Performance Athlete’s Dream. …We’re here. Along with two other couples. Six aging adults. Each with an opinion, a position on Costco.
Colin Fletcher, a self-described “solitary son-of-a-bitch.”
Why your brain needs you to read every day. …On returning from Ireland, she asked me (being 44% Irish) for a book recommendation, wanting insight into Ireland’s soul. I suggested this. She’s reading it now. Loves it. …Available for free on your Kindle.
Coach said.
NYT: Scared of High-Intensity Interval Training? A Heart Monitor Can Make it Fun and Easy
Study: Multivitamins, Other Common Supplements Have No Health Benefits
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish. ~Billy Mills, Olympic Gold Medalist in the 10,000, Tokyo 1964
Video: The final lap …Still the only American to win the 10,000.
Also in Tokyo, Bob Schul wins the 5000, still the only American… Video
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ~ William James
Brad Stulberg: Talking About Doing Something and Actually Doing It Are Two Very Different Things
LeBron James agrees. Consider
Does running a mile a day really improve children’s lives? …Would an hour of daily exercise (any movement) improve every body?
Radical Critique of the Wellness Culture
Fun stuff from the Very Stable Idiot
Just in from the archives. Run For Your Life
We’re back in Eugene. We loved Ireland.
Prefontaine Classic results.
Jen Miller/NYT: Explaining Your Running Habit on Vacation. And more.
Video: Best hikes in the world. Angels Landing is the only one we’ve done on that list. Yes, it’s beautiful and especially memorable as we did it on our honeymoon. Best hikes are done with people you love. So try to hike with your honey every day.
Books read during the Ireland trip:
How The Irish Saved Civilization
The Madonnas of Leningrad. …Terrific. Perhaps our next trip will be to the Hermitage in St. Petersberg. …Book recommended by the sole survivor and art history major, Bryn Mawr class of 1934, soon to be 106.
Book of Evidence. …By Irish author who won Booker Prize (best fiction in English each year).
Great Expectations. …You can get great deals for your Kindle with authors whose copyrights have expired. Variously, I have all most all the works of Thoreau, Dickens, Hugo, others for 99 cents or free.
A mystery by Robert B. Parker. Fun, but tossed and I don’t remember it at all.
Tour details details
Heritage Valley results
When you run to win, time is secondary.
Can Lifestyle Changes Remove Plaques in Your Arteries?
What Can the NBA Playoffs Teach You About Performance?
Q&A with Andrew Murray He owns the lovely hotel we’re staying at on Inishboshin. …I’m on notice we’re not leaving until she witnesses the extremely shy corncrake
There isn’t a single athlete from track and field or road running on ESPN’s annual list of the 100 most famous athletes in sports. Why? Ken Goe reports.
Robert Klapper, chief of orthopedic surgery at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, says: You need to respect the pain, because what it’s telling you is to stop.
Pete Magill: Benefits of Speed Training
Why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation of children
The first session of the Pre Classic is tonight (Friday), and we could all be there to see it for free. Consider.
After a 22 hour marathon from Eugene to San Francisco to London to Shannon. We’re eight hours ahead of PST.
The Wisdom of Running a 2,189-Mile Marathon
Josh Phillips is the creative director for the Oregon track and field team, a job unique in a track and field program. Story.
Ireland is quite different than I’d imagined. The climate and green landscaping resembles Oregon. It’s old. Vacant fields bordered with stone. We visited a Roman Catholic church in Ennis built in 1832. Still in business with daily Mass. Daniel O’Connell, responsible for the emancipation the Irish Catholics, came from Ennis, and it has a grand statute of him. …Talking to an Irish musician, we noted Don’s wives (first cousins) are believed descendants of Irish patriot Charles Stuart Parnell, Don’s last name, and that Don is 44% Irish. He commended the Parnell connection but noted the McLeans were probably dirt poor Scots farmers who migrated to Ireland. …The population is older and thinner in number and pant size. …We haven’t heard any Irish spoken, but the schools are required to teach youngsters to read and speak Gaelic, to what extent I don’t know. Road signs and licence plates are in English and Gaelic. …Way less Japanese cars in Ireland. Ever heard of Skoda? It’s a Czech car, with some Volkswagon connection, that you see on the roads. Not sold in North America. A taxi driver raved about his. …My “full breakfast” today included egg, bacon, sausage, baked beans, bread, coffee, and black & white pudding. The latter was a surprise. Scrapple, I think. …Perchance you haven’t experienced scrapple? …The coffee is good here. The coffee in the hotel room is instant, but even that was good. …At the restaurant last night, we had two choices for wine: red or white. But a hundred choices in beer and whiskey. I had a Guinness pint.
Tom Wolfe, RIP …Over the past 53 years, I read and enjoyed all of his books.
Alex Hutchinson: Do Olympic Medalists Live Longer Than Chess Masters?
More on Tom Wolfe. He loved to stir it up.
Sprint training for endurance athletes
Semi-Rad links
Jen Miller/NYT: Runningwith Allergies and other links.
Ken Goe: Nobody likes Galen Rupp?
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