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The Morning Mile Gets Kids Running Before School—and Loving It Alex Hutchinson: How to Strengthen Your Ankles and Run Faster For the real cyclist: The Rules …Especially Rule No. 5. What woefully weak, whiny, wimpy, wasted, wastrel wussies we be. … Continue reading →

Bananas!!! White People Food? NYT obit: Diane Leather, 85, First Woman to Run Mile in Under 5 Minutes. What a story! I’ve been a track fanatic all my life, and I’d never heard of her until now. In my high … Continue reading →

Not the usual fare: Change a Word—Change Your Life Can we choose our own identity? Every Sunday in the New York Times, Kwame Anthony Appiah waxes wise in The Ethicist Why women live longer than men A Trip to Tolstoy … Continue reading →

Remember. … 2,997 flags in Malibu, Calif., to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks on this day in 2001.CreditCreditFrederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Check out the Nike ad on Caster Semenya. Yes, it’s touching, but were those … Continue reading →

Alex Honnold Climbs Halfway Up a New Jersey Skyscraper Alex Hutchinson: How to Time Your Exercise to Maximize Sleep Jenny Simpson’s pillars of success. …Must see: Jenny yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Mile.

Jen A. Miller/NYT: Muscle Loss, Bathroom Scales, and Kindness Pro Runners’ Salaries Fifth Avenue Mile on the tube, Sunday, 9 AM, PDT Diane Leather Charles, First Woman to Break 5-Minute Mile, Dies at 85 Fifth Avenue Mile results. …So how … Continue reading →

An Ode to Fall Running Q&A with Jeff Galloway In California, Human Breath Is a Cancer Risk

Yes, I’m late. Was traveling most of the day. Now back in Eugene. Leave No Trace Also Means Your Food Q&A with Amby Burfoot What should we read? …Left and right, Dems and Reps, believers and atheists, rich and poor, … Continue reading →

The Myth of Slow Metabolism Kipling’s “If” is the favorite poem of Serena Williams.

Kenyan athletics – when does the benefit of the doubt run out? BALCO figures offer how to rid sports of doping 15 years after scandal