Kipchoge jogged to and from school. Story

Kipchoge defies logic to push limits of human physiology

Ditto Kevin Mayer

Low-dose aspirin?

King of the Manhattan Lap

Steve Magness: An Analysis of Eliud Kipchoge’s Training Before His Berlin Marathon Victory

Teens Are Protesting In-Class Presentations. …Isn’t overcoming anxiety educational, a basic life skill?

Yesterday I ran this. But way slower, 105 minutes. 15,253 steps. 1650′ elevation gain.

How Sports Became Us

“It’s easy to say, ‘I love God,’ but put on your boots, get your hands dirty” said Jim Pennington, the senior pastor of Temple Church in flood-sunken New Bern, N.C.

Fun story about Kipchoge’s Drinks Guy

Eliud Kipchoge Crushes Marathon World Record

Female Athletes Face Crazy Expectations. They Can Be Overcome.

About Steens Mountain High Altitude Running Camp. …It’s raw, remote, a bit unreal. Like no place you’ve ever been. Check the photos.

Kipchoge training

Who Wins in Berlin?

Eliud Kipchoge Is the Greatest Marathoner, Ever

Find a treadmill that goes 13.1 miles/hour, and then try to hang on for a minute or two. That’s is what this guy is capable of doing for 26.2 miles. ~Scott Cacciola

Advice to the Next Generation: Nap When You Can

What does your morning coffee have in common with a bike?

Why We Need More Female Coaches

Speaking while exercising? Not if you want to get fitter

Jen A. Miller/NYT: Getting in Our Miles. And lots more.

66-year-old bombshell can do 37 burpees in a minute. …Three years ago, 250 in 19:31

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.

Running, on the Way to Personal Recovery

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 school track days, the fact that a female had run a mile faster than us… Inconceivable.

Sue Johnston Is an Ultrarunning Pioneer

We’ve come a long ways, boys and girls. Video: A Journey to the Top of Mount Olympus.

Harvard Business Review: Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. In business and in sports as well.

Do Not Waste Good Time.

Bob Hayes, 91, ultrarunner dies at 91. Story. …Movie.

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 Farm

Oregon’s first confirmed fatal wild cougar attack. …More. Aside from a sense of being stalked a few times (rustling in the bushes), Don had a stare-down with a mountain lion near the entrance to Mentryville. No. 1 son had an encounter with three mountain lions in Mt. Pinos area, duly recorded on his gizmo.

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 really Semenya’s touching words or that of a copy writer? But more to the point, how do the other 800m runners (many being Nike sponsored) feel about it?

Ato Boldon reflects on track and field season breakouts, looks to 2019

5 training tips for the older runner

Walking Might Be the Best Exercise There Is. If so, gardening might be second best. …Now harvesting grapes, corn, pears, apples, plums, tomatoes…

Consider The Other Path

“It has long been our desire to see cross country running back in the Olympic Games,” said IAAF President Sebastian Coe. More.

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 would you have finished in your age group? Yes, I know you’re not a miler, and Don isn’t either, but how are you going to improve on your 5K, or any race beyond the mile, if you don’t know and don’t work on, improve your mile time? …Every town should have mile races for all ages at least once a year. …I raced an All-Comers track mile in July, finishing in 7:56.84.

Michael Johnson, 50, experienced a mini-stroke. …In January, Don had the same, or maybe a TGA No hospitalization. Got every possible, imaginable test of the brain and heart. The last test was a 24 hours per day heart monitor for 30 days. The final verdict? You’re OK, no need for drugs or anything new. From day one I was told I could run as much I wanted, and I did. In fact, I raced a 5K with the monitor. …My father and older sister had TIAs and recovered sans further stroke/heart scares.

An Ode to Fall Running

Q&A with Jeff Galloway

In California, Human Breath Is a Cancer Risk