Jane Brody’s Personal Secrets to Lasting Weight Loss
Alex Hutchinson: What We Can Learn from Roger Bannister
Ultra Running Through China’s ‘Beastly’ Mountains
Enough with the Helmet Shaming Already. …Ditto for fat shaming and all the other stuff we do to put down others not at our level of perfection.
His first summer job was changing sprinkler pipes, seven days a week, in the vast grazing pastures and alfalfa fields nearby… David Ribich shows that no place is ‘too small’ to succeed.
Roger Robinson on Roger Bannister. …Yes, I admired the fellow. Before the present Rufus, our last cat was named Roger.
Is it wrong to be blunt about obesity?
How Your Brief High School Track/XC Career Can Change Your Life Forever
Phogging? Try it. You’ll feel better about yourself and your town.
The performance enhancing effects of Tylenol. It’s legal. But is it moral? What would you think about your coach if he/she suggested you take it before a race?
ONLY RUNNERS CAN SAVE THE WORLD!!!!
How Pro Runner Katie Mackey Got Out of Her Head
Your Outdoor Pursuits Make You Better at Your Job
Good reads on Christian Coleman and Chris O’Hare, with his Oklahoma posse, coached by Terrence Mahon
NYT Running: Beachy Keen Runs, Weighted Blankets and 8,000 Calories
Trevor Habberstad Invitational results
Skyler Mikesell, an All American runner at Masters University, was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. Help Skyler Pay His Medical Bills
Do read the Bannister autobiography. Twin Tracks. Such a superlatively productive life after his brief track career, while a leading neurologist, he kept taking on unpaid assignments and duties because no else was equipped to do them so well. A great family man, thinker, writer, leader, moral authority…
Snow day yesterday at No. 1 son’s place in Mt. Shasta City. …Can you see the cat?
Raw Dorsey High Schooler Jumps 7 Feet
Dick Fosbury chosen for National High School Hall of Fame. Finally. …Watch.
The secrets of the 40 yard dash. Has your favorite cross country team lost because one finisher didn’t finish with their best possible effort? Did the team coach, or someone, coach the finishing kick?
Bob Coomber Wants to Cross the Sierra in a Wheelchair. …Must see video.
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero. You’d be amazed how much Warren (Buffett) reads – and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out. ~Charlie Munger
Steve Magness: Recommended Reads.
Coach Vern Gambetta recommends
Gene Blankenship owns 1500 books on running.
Steve Martin & Robin Williams Riff on Math, Physics, Einstein & Picasso
Turkey at the Eugene Whole Foods Market
No One Wins When the FBI Doubles as the NCAA’s Enforcement Arm
The Scientific Case for a Big Breakfast
March, 2018 Oregon Track Club Newsletter
World Indoor schedule and results
Gangster turkeys overwhelm Eugene
Two years ago today at a park down by the river in Eugene, OR. Photo. Live chickens in the cage on the top of the bus.
Why Cross-Country Skiers Collapse And Barf After Races
Video: How a Drone Helps One Veteran Deal with PTSD
Amazing lady: Colleen Milliman. First 90+ female on the planet to race a mile. We’re doing a Q&A.
College football is as crooked as college basketball
The Triumphant Tragedy of Marathoner Kokichi Tsuburaya
I have forgotten how to read. …A friend in Nevada writes, “I have a library card, and I’m not afraid to use it.”
A Challenge Race Shakes Up the Running Routine
Oregon-Bound Josh Hoey Breaks National High School Record For 800m.
By two seconds.
Al-Sal OK with Centro relocate to DC
Grunting’s competitive advantage
Nathan Myhrvold, a polymath billionaire, suggests you add salt to your wine.
The Grim Reaper does not care about the latest longevity study you saw …For example.
NYT: Harassment While Running, etc.
Oregon Ducks senior Sam Prakel is all business, on the track and in the classroom.
How beliefs shape our waistlines. I Think I Can.
On Saturday we saw five bald eagles, one adult and four juveniles. Fishing for lunch, we think, on the Willamette River. The adult’s mate is likely on the nest.
Alex Hutchinson: Holding your breath during training can improve performance
Michael D. Joyner on supplements: Here.
Did USTAF Board chair Steve Miller undermine Vin Lananna? …Eleven months ago the United States hosted the World Indoor Track & Field Championships in Portland, Oregon, the brainchild of Vin Lananna. …Today Vin is flying to London for the 2019 World Indoor Track & Field Championships, there to be the USA representative/go-to guy for the 2021 World Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Hayward Field being less than a mile from Vin’s house.
Another good story on the Oregon walk-on, Mick Stanovsek
‘You can be a Duck and say you’re a Duck for the rest of your life.’ Love an Underdog? Oregon Has One to Root For
Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life. ~Bill Bowerman
Why Fitness Trackers Should Measure Your Breath Rate
Great people know a great many things beyond their field. …Must read by David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell. Here.
No jerks allowed. In Norway, with only 5.2 million citizens, with 11,000 sports organizations, 93% of children and young people are regularly playing sports.
Leo Tolstoy Makes a List of the 50+ Books That Influenced Him Most. …Dostoyevsky doesn’t make the cut. …Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were not best buds.
Mick Stanovsek!!! The Movie
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