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?
Young Swimmers May Have to Wait to Dress Like Katie Ledecky
Sarah Zorn, the Citadel’s first female regimental commander, is probably smarter and more badass than us. …Pat Conroy, recently deceased, was obsessed with the Citadel and wrote about it all his life. Don was obsessed with Conroy, reading all his books, including the cookbook.
Shanghai Daimond League results
Oslo: Dream Mile Tradition Continues. …Will you disclose your most recent mile time? We will suck if we can’t improve or at least maintain our mile time.
Amby on recent running books.
Richard Russo on Loving Flawed Family Members …Actually, I don’t care to know or listen to your opinions on politics or religion.
Tough read: The Dark Lining of the Prefontaine Mantra: Lessons from Hale Ross’ life at Yale
Jen A. Miller/NYT: Honoring Moms on the Move, and more
PAC-12 Championships this weekend. Details
Q&A with Phil Knight Most of the 200 million to build the new Hayward Field will come from Uncle Phil. …Shoe Dog is a good read.
Alex Hutchinson: The Ultimate (Evidence-Based) Guide to Recovery
Video: Running Across California
Video: Look Up. …Reminds me, I just finished Birding Without Borders. Strycker identified 6,042 bird species in one year. Last year, we heard him in person, and bought one of his books. He autographed it with the inscription, “Keep looking up!”
Harvard Business Review: The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves
Magness Speaks — Non-Responders: Why Science Conforms to the Average
How To Run The Lost Coast In Half A Day. Let’s do it! OK, over two days.
Cool video of Truckee ultrarunner Rory Bosio and friends. Here.
Ed Batista: Get Moving!
American Heart Association: Five healthy habits may add more than a decade to life
Like: Tempo. Good photos.
Jane Brody/NYT: How to Avoid Burnout in Youth Sports
Brad Stulberg: Don’t Lose Your Edge as You Age
Every Google search results in CO2 emissions. We’re all polluters, more or less.
Juicy tidbits on the Hayward Field’s hallowed, historic, splintered, cried over East Grandstand and the race video with teen Jakob Ingebrigtsen handing it to the Olympians, thanks Ken Goe.
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