You Don’t Need to Walk 10,000 Steps

Is Our Obsession With Health Data Making Us Crazy?

Just say no

100 Books All Runners and Track Fans Should Read

A few more for the list:

The Herb Elliott Story as told to Alan Trengove (Don’s first running book)
Anything by Percy Cerutty and Arthur Lydiard (who hated each other)
Train Hard, Win Easy: The Kenyan Way by Toby Tanser
The Lonely Breed by Ron Clarke and Norman Harris
Running in Literature by Roger Robinson
TrackTown, USA by Kenny Moore
The Runner’s Literary Companion edited by Garth Battista
Running Tough by Michael Sandrock
14 Minutes by Alberto Salazar
Twin Tracks: The Autobiography by Roger Bannister
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Never Missed by Mark Covert
The Prelog by Linda Prefonaine
Rome 1960 by David Maraniss

2019 June Oregon Track Club Newsletter. Includes Q&A with Michael Reilly, CEO of Tracktown USA.

Jen A. Miller/NYT: Celebrating the Joy of Running. With great links.

San Jose State plans to pave over historic track

Does Marathon Running Increase the Risk of Cardiac Arrest?

Four Prescription Drugs That People Hate

The Cultural History of Fat

Homage to Thru Hiking

Five Lessons from History

How the sheer hell of ultrarunning led me to a strange peace

So if you/politicians really care about global warming… The Case for Ditching Air Travel

From five years ago: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Diane Leather Breaking the 5 Minute Mile Barrier

Today is the bicentennial of Walt Whitman’s birth. More.

Stockholm Diamond League recap

Eliud’s Diary

Fun stuff: Here’s The Punjabi Call Of The Penguins’ Game-Winner

Do you really need 10,000 steps per day? …Do you really need to watch a screen 12 hours a day?

Rudy Chapa on The Spirit and Magic of Hayward Field

Are we traveling too much?

Running Into Obsession: The Church of Arthur Lydiard

Was walking south this morning at 10:30 AM on on the river trail. Going north were six University of Oregon ladies, running quite fast (and talking), including Jessica Hull, ranked No. 1 in 1500 for the upcoming the NCAA D-1 championships.

Mediocre As A Man, An NCAA Champ As A Woman

Your Kids Think You’re Addicted to Your Phone

Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence

Just finished Bernd Heinrich’s The Snoring Bird. Fascinating and well done on so many levels. …We also like Why We Run and Racing the Antelope: What Animals Can Teach Us About Running and Life

Now reading Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story. What a character! A bit of a hippie. Wore cast-off rags, a tin pot for a hat, often bare foot. Spent a lot of time in Mansfield, OH, 11 miles from the farm where my mom was raised. She taught in Mansfield before coming to California.

Yikes! The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper

The Searchers might not be John Wayne’s best movie. Check out Red River.

Yikes again. We all know that families should eat together, but…

Lessons From the Great Antioxidant Lie …Guru Ken Cooper’s Antioxident Revolution got me on the daily “antioxident cocktail” for about a year. A fool, to be sure.

An Athlete’s Guide to Aging Gracefully.

Don’t Think Too Hard About Your Foot Strike

How to Tell Your Trail Partner to Slow Down

Why We Run

David Epstein: You Don’t Want a Child Prodigy

Jen A. Miller/NYT: Great Expectations for a Return to Racing. When was your last race? Was saddened to hear so many of my Santa Clarita friends, 60 years and older, no longer race. Maybe for good reasons, who knows? I still love it.

Breakfast in Eugene

How Selfie Culture Ruins the Great Outdoors for Everyone Else

Lance Armstrong: ‘It wasn’t legal but I wouldn’t change a thing’ …Apparently still unashamed, the poster boy for creepy, bad behavior.

Leaving Depoe Bay.

W.H. Auden Wrote Poetry For a Beautiful Short Film About Running. …Saw him race at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in 1962.

Q&A with David Epstein. The case for trying new things. Our new things: xc skiing and snowshoeing.