I’ve been a recreational runner for about a year, and built up a solid base to start training for a half-marathon. I have access to a pool and a stationary bike and enjoy both activities for cross training. Is it best to stick to one cross training activity or do both? If alternating ...
By Dana Blinder What you put on your salad may be just as, if not more, important than what you put in it. Researchers at Purdue University built off a 2004 study that determined nutritional benefits from salad were more available for intestinal absorption when mixed with a full-fat i...
Saves the Day Can Nick Symmonds lead track and field athletes to the Promised Land? by Jon Gugala It's Friday night. Nick Symmonds calls to ask if I'd like to come over and watch him clean his guns. Symmonds, the six-time national champion at the 800 meters (2007, '10, Indoors; 2008-'...
Has the time finally come for a five-toed dress shoe for men? A fine Italian-inspired FiveFingers model just might make its way to the market in 2013 ... if we're lucky. Today's news comes from a release related to the 2013 Pitti* that includes the lone photo (seen above) of a potenti...
I don't think flying beer robots would work very well in a marathon, particularly at the start. If all the people in the starting crush summoned their robots at once it would be disaster, plus, I don't know how PR times would do with beer so readily accessible on the course. At the en...
At the 2012 Western States 100, Ellie Greenwood ran what might very well be the most impressive women’s trail ultramarathon performance in history. Her 16:47:19 took 50 minutes off Ann Trason’s course record, which itself was previously considered among the hallmark performances of th...
It's always cool when highly theoretical debates get a nice dose of practical reality. So if you're interested in footstrike (should runners land on their toes? heel? midfoot?), check out this awesome data collected by BYU biomechanist Iain Hunter . Using high-speed video, he has asse...
Some 20 years ago, one of my dear friends, Mark, took me into the Atlantic to try the sport he loved. We paddled our boards into the waves, but I didn’t even come close to catching one, standing up, and surfing to shore. I spent maybe an hour trying to surf with no success—and about t...
Over the past several weeks I've had an interesting experience that I thought I'd share as I found it somewhat informative about the nature of running injuries. I've been taking Taekwondo lessons with my kids since January (a story for another post), and I've come to realize that in m...
The telecast began with a brief review of the tizzy created by the dead heat for third place in Saturday's women's 100-meter final between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh, who coincidentally are training partners and presumably friends. Tom Hammond surprised me by saying that "the pho...
WL´s for Merritt, Sanya, Hoffa and Gatlin gets 9.80 EUGENE (USA, Jun 24): Two world leading marks at 400 m and another one in shot put and fast 9.80 personal best for Justin Gatlin highlighted the Sunday action at Hayward Field watched by a crowd of 27 013 to set a Hayward Field atten...
I don't think flying beer robots would work very well in a marathon, particularly at the start. If all the people in the starting crush summoned their robots at once it would be disaster, plus, I don't know how PR times would do with beer so readily accessible on the course. At the en...
Jeneba Tarmoh surely made her presence felt last night in the 100 meter final. While the top two, Carmelita Jeter and Tiana Madison, were dueling, with Jeter winning in 10.92, and Madison taking second in 10.96, Tarmoh and Felix were in an epic struggle. Who would take third. Well, tw...
I’m sucked into Newsroom on HBO so I’m going to make short. My day started by making breakfast for all my boys. Yes even the husband who’s been making an effort to get up earlier. On the menu, French Toast sprinkled with Chia seeds. I sauteed up some kale and bacon bits for an omelet ...
Over the past several weeks I've had an interesting experience that I thought I'd share as I found it somewhat informative about the nature of running injuries. I've been taking Taekwondo lessons with my kids since January (a story for another post), and I've come to realize that in m...
