If you are losing speed, it’s because you aren’t doing enough pure speed work to maintain it. Consider
Intensity is what separates the champions from the wannabes.
Exercise is the best antioxidant
Video: Kilian Jornet is injured.
2018 USATF National Masters Track & Field Championship results. Yes, we should have been there.
Harvard scientists say these 5 things can prolong your life by a decade
And one more thing. Change your habits. …Short term pain. Long term gain.
Forever George Young
New Jersey school superintendent’s job is down the toilet. Why? …He left it all out on the track.
Jen A. Miller/NYT: Favorite Runners Share Their Favorite Running Books
Video: Myth Vs. Fact: Sunscreen
Big Changes at Autzen Stadium. I’d care if a football fan.
Q&A with David Epstein. Good introduction to his terrific book, The Sports Gene. Lots of good stuff about runners. Especially good is the chapter entitled Sled Dogs, Ultrarunners, and Couch Potatoes. …Did mom and dad give us the will and heart of Zorro, the wonder dog? Is there a gene for that? …Another tidbit in the book. With the death of Mao, the Chinese sports federation (government), hoping to get into the world’s sport scene, brought together 6 ft 7 in dad and 6 ft 3 in mom, both prominent basketball players. The result was 7 ft 6 in Yao Ming.
Steve Magness: How to Run: Running with proper biomechanics …Have you ever been instructed and monitored by a running coach fully invested in your success? It’s never to late for all of us to improve and/or minimize chances of injury. …Get some film on yourself during various phases in a race. Likely you’ll look worse as you tire.
No racing/film tonight for Don at the All-Comers. Was going to do the 800 or 1500. But at 92 degrees?
But anyway, I’m now reading David Epstein’s The Sports Gene. In the 90s, leading up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Australia tested the athleticism of every school kid between 14 and 16 for body size and athleticism. …As a percentage of population, Australia won 10 times as many medals as the United States. …At least in my day, physical education in the public schools was a joke. Is it any better today? Hardly. Study. …”In the United States, the percentage of children and adolescents affected by obesity has more than tripled since the 1970s. Data from 2015-2016 show that nearly 1 in 5 school age children and young people (6 to 19 years) in the United States has obesity.”
Brad Stulberg: The Equation That Will Make You Better at Everything
Must read. Amby Burfoot: Alamosa 1968: The Historic First U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials. …Burfoot, who won the Boston Marathon in 1968, was injured and didn’t compete.
Alex Hutchinson: Lessons from Watching the World’s Best Runners
So What HAPPENED to Oregon Track?
Alex Hutchinson: The Case for Varying Your Nutrition and Recovery
Inside story at the U.S. Supreme Court: The Highest Court in the Land
Age grading: how masters runners level the playing field
USA Masters Track Championships this weekend in Spokane. 915 old boys and girls competing.
Semi-Rad: Nostalgia is A Mother
Freakonomics: Has Lance Finally Come Clean? …Truly contrite?
What’s the point of your session?
School sued over heat stroke to cross country runner.
Like: Des Linden and the long run
Jerry Schumacher’s strength training secrets
Rich guys (yes, just guys) plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
Brunch in Brooklyn at Carthage Must Be Destroyed. Don survived Brooklyn for two years without air conditioning. Quien es mas macho?
Do it now. The conditions are always impossible. ~Doris Lessing
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. ~Richard Feynman
More on the Vaporflys. Would you compete in them? What’s the point? The improvement would not be yours.
Houlihan and Frerichs are both Nike athletes, coached by Jerry Schumacher at the Bowerman Track Club.
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives… I’m reading Enlightement Now. It’s terrific. And it is also bound to offend you, challenging cherished prejudices and beliefs. …Bill Gates sez, My new favorite book of all time
But the Los Angeles Times is worse, way-worse, especially the sports department. Read.
Just in from the Harvard Business News: You’re Never Going to Be “Caught Up” at Work. Stop Feeling Guilty About It. …We hang with old people, most of them involved in down-sizing, they say. But they don’t.
Inspirational: 73-year-old sets new standard for old runners at Western States ultramarathon
The Nike Vaporfly 4% May Make You Faster. But I Don’t Have to Like That
Instead. Pig Yoga
7:56:84 last night in the Jogger’s Mile at Lane Community College. …The movie. …Old guy in the yellow shirt.
Jen A. Miller/NYT: The Humor in Running
…the average American takes in about 80 grams of added sugar daily, the equivalent of 20 teaspoons! More
Shelby Houlihan shatters 5,000m American record. More. Complete Belgium results.
Courtney Frerichs breaks American steeplechase record at Monaco Diamond League. More. Complete Monaco results.
National Geographic: While We Sleep, Our Mind Goes on an Amazing Journey
COC #3 results.
NYT: Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Faster. It May Be True. …If true and legal, should you admit your new marathon PR (say, 7 minutes faster) was done in those shoes?
OMG, Lance is back and Don is enjoying his blog
14 things successful people do before breakfast
Crazy at the TdF: Here. And here.
Semi-Rad: Summer is here. Sweat Without Shame.
Read de jour: Thai cave footballers tell of how they tried to dig their way out
Writing Prescriptions to Play Outdoors
Vin Lananna Resigns… …We think he’s terrific.
Last month in Eugene. Rai Benajamin. 47.02. Fastest collegiate, second fastest in human history. More.
Calories Burned Walking vs. Running? …It all counts.
40 percent of adults in the United States who drink alcohol drink too much.
Why Runners Are Obsessed With Time Barriers
Forget The Gadgets and Hacks: Nail The Basics
Must see in full screen: Mt. Marathon video
navigation