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
Three inches in Eugene.
Shalane Flanagan on How to Achieve Peak Performance
Screen Time Is Dangerous for Kids
We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past, and we will be idiots again in the future – and that is OK. There aren’t any other available options for human beings. …More
The Hindu, circulation 1.2 million, reviews Alex Hutchinson’s Endure
Tonight’s track workout for half marathoners and beyond here. Your coach is Ian Dobson, Olympian. His college coach was Vin Lananna.
Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972)
Still snowing here.
The Joy Of Wearing Out A Piece Of Gear
Larry Eder/RunBlogRun on USATF board vs. USATF President
1 in 5 Americans have more credit-card debt than savings. Like the federal government. $20,769,498,460,581 in debt as of December, 2017. By now, about 21 trillion. Who cares?
New Fitbit Data Finds That Users In the U.S. Have the Highest Resting Heart Rates. And that’s not a good thing. …More.
Why Fatigue Is Your Best Feedback
The Sunday New York Times Magazine includes our favorite feature,The Ethicist. …Am I/you doing the right thing?
Ken Goe: Where is the USATF board’s grand vision to save the sport?
Ken Goe/Oregonian: Vin Lananna “taken aback” by the USATF board’s move
LetsRun: Trying to make sense of USATF’s action
Video: Vin Lananna is a revoluntionary, a game changer
the morning shakeout nails it: This latest move (the Lananna putsch) is evidence of USATF’s incompetency, insecurity, and arrogance, and further confirms how out of touch the board members are with the organization’s membership and the myriad problems plaguing the sport in this country.
How fasting rewired my brain. What excesses in our lives need to be eliminated (OK, moderated)? I mean, besides running.
Ken Goe writes: If there are legitimate reasons for Lananna’s removal, the USATF board should say so and act in a transparent manner. In the meantime, this looks less like good governance, and more like dirty politics. …More.
USATF Indoor Championship results.
Convenience has the ability to make other options unthinkable. Read.
You can run the best half marathon of your life, but unless you extend your long runs and plan carefully, a marathon will eat you whole and burp out your shoelaces. An updated formula for marathon-running success
Remembering a legendary Canyon athlete, Trevor Habberstad
7 performance-boosting habits top Olympic athletes have in common
Lananna placed on temporary administrative leave by USATF …More.
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