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Nike Announces the Vaporfly 4% Flyknit, Updating Its Speed-Racing Shoe …So you get the shoe and in your next race you improve your best by 4%. Can you, should you be proud about that? Video: An Ode to Muir Trailer … Continue reading →

Treadmill Workouts to Increase Speed, Build Strength, and Burn Fat. …The treadmill doesn’t listen to our excuses. Seneca on The Shortness of Time Life expectancy declines in U.S. Must see: The Communal Art of Footracing 88 Days to Nationals 12 … Continue reading →

Sorry, hot yoga fans. Sweating doesn’t cleanse your body. We can all do about 20 times more than we think we can. We just tend to put upper limits on ourselves. But when you get down to it, people cut … Continue reading →

the morning shakeout The Week That Was Athletes Share Their Mental Health Coping Strategies Running Happy video. Five life lessons that Ryan Sandes learned while setting a new FKT on the Great Himalaya Trail. It’s time for Sweet, Sweet Corn. … Continue reading →

Strength Coach Just finished End Zone. Very funny. The coaches are nuts. And abusive. Such was my experience, and portrayed so in fiction, film, and fact. I’ve known scores of running coaches. Not one was abusive. I think I know … Continue reading →

National Geographic: Sleep Science: In the Era of Screens, Rest is Crucial The net is full of Elon Musk. Can’t sleep. Nuts? Recently finished Scott Jurek’s

About Soft People Obesity in America. Seems to be because we’re stupid and easily hoodwinked and don’t realize what, how much is wolfed down. Trash Runners! Recommended. We live on a cul de sac, ending at a trail head for … Continue reading →

Week That Was. Must reading about Jakob Ingrebrigtsen, 1500 and 5000 meter gold medalist at age 17. Two words. Threshold intervals. …1500 race video Good news for you!!! California might decide coffee does not cause cancer. Defining the Upper Limits … Continue reading →

Free will? Q&A with philosopher Galen Strawson. Were you really born to run? …A fully informed, completely rational decision? Tim Duncan “was the most coachable great player of all time. …That was always our secret weapon, to me: You see … Continue reading →

the morning shakeout USADA’s Athlete Perception Survey On Doping NYT: How Body Type May Determine Runners’ and Swimmers’ Destinies Free climber Alex Honnold on fear and risk What Muir Really Meant by ‘the Mountains Are Calling’ Why it’s okay for … Continue reading →