Came across a tidbit in the most recent Men’s Journal (March 2011) that cited a University Hospital of Ulm, Germany, study, saying, “while endurance runners can suffer plenty of bone fractures and joint problems that need rest to heal, they’re able to run through most muscle pain, especially in the upper and lower legs, without [...]
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Imagine fighting through 25 something miles of a race, then driving forward to take the lead in the homestretch of a marathon, only to take a wrong turn as you round the last bend?
Sports nutritionist Ben Greenfield, who just became the new owner of the Endurance Planet podcast, shared his top 5 sports nutrition lessons from 2010 in the last episode (check it out here). A couple of these really caught my attention as they seem to fly in the face of not only conventional wisdom, but volumes [...]
Ran a Happy New Year 4.5-mile recovery-pace run with 30/30 intervals during mile 3. The weather was amazing; sunny 55f blue skies. This is Jan.1 in New Hampshire? Had some good weather for yesterday’s New Year’s Eve 14-miler with Curt, too.He picked a nice route that took us out of Merrimack over the new bride [...]
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I ran an ankle-recovery-test 6 miler on the treadmill in a new pair of Brooks Ghost 3s today. They were recommended to me by the folks over at Runner’s Alley in Manchester, and I loved ‘em! It was the first time in a long time — years — since I’ve worn anything but the Nike Air [...]
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My season of skipping a marathon in favor of trackwork and short races ended with many fall race goals met (and expectations exceeded), others abandoned in the face of injury, and finally, even the injury providing an awesome opportunity, the motivation to drop out of my last planned race and pace our 8-year-old in his [...]
I had no idea that genuine topical anti-inflammatories had been available in Europe for decades. Decades! While we’ve been making do with topical sports injury ointments that pretty much just seem to heat up your skin for a while and distract you from the deeper pain. Runners earn many maladies the treatment of which (aside [...]
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A selection of the things I shared on Twitter this week. Wired mag editor makes a case for killing comments:http://ow.ly/31tQR, 10/29 Whither Conde Nast Digital? Rolling back into the main print group?http://ow.ly/30NuU, 10/28 Our eldest ran strong this afternoon in his first cross country meet!, 10/27 RT @avinash: SethGodin makes the case for tracking Internal [...]
The animator, James Jarvis, is also a smoking fast runner with PRs of 32:20 for 10K and 2:35:34 for the marathon! Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.
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