No Tour de France for Jan Ullrich!

Archive for June, 2006

No Tour de France for Jan Ullrich!

By Blaine Moore on Friday, June 30th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Dozens of cyclists have been barred from participating in the Tour de France after being linked to a Spanish doctor charged with illegal doping. Among those being barred are Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso. The suspensions came down from the individual teams themselves. “There are clear guidelines arranged with the riders, which leave no room [...]

New animated pushup demo at Okolo.org

By Blaine Moore on Friday, June 30th, 2006 | No Comments

Okolo has decided to have his own set of animated exercises on his website (much like I have done), and he has begun with how to do pushups. He has an animation of himself doing a pushup, along with instructions of how to do them. He also explains how to do handstand pushups. Along with [...]

Is “bonking” actually good for you?

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, June 29th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Dr. Bente Klarlund Pederse of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, believes that we should spend some of our time training in a glycogen-depleted state in order to maximize our training benefits to increase production of the immune system agent Interleukin-6. In other words, do some workouts underfueled and make yourself bonk in training. Pedersen provided [...]

Why can only fat people buy belts?

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 | 1 Comment

I do not buy belts very often. Tonight, I threw out a belt that I have had for at least 8 years. Three or four days ago the end of the belt finally fell away from the rest of the belt past the notch that I use, which had been hanging on by less and [...]

Winner disqualified at Western States 100 Miler

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 | 1 Comment

Brian Morrison of Seattle was disqualified after winning the Western States 100 Miler because he received help maintaining forward motion in the last quarter mile of the race. Graham Cooper of Oakland was then awarded the first place accolodes. The Western States 100-mile Endurance Run Board of Trustees released the following statement regarding the disqualification: [...]

Do not go to sleep hungry

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 | 1 Comment

Most people will not eat before going to sleep. Two common reasons for this is because the person may not sleep as well, or because they are trying to lose weight and do not want to eat something and not have an opportunity to burn off some calories before going to sleep. You do not [...]

Weight Lifting with a Broken Finger

By Blaine Moore on Monday, June 26th, 2006 | 3 Comments

A week ago, I broke my ring finger. On my way out the door the next day to go do my Monday morning weight lifting workout, I realized that that probably was not a very good idea. As such, I took the last week off from lifting and just did a lot of running. Which [...]

Whirlaway 10k

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, June 25th, 2006 | No Comments

The latest USATF-New England grand prix race was this morning in Methuen, Mass. The Whirlaway 10k had some better weather this year than they did last year, and they had enough water at the finish line for everybody this time. The course takes a quick trip up over the first few miles, and is predominantly [...]

This Week Last Year: Race Results, Book Reviews, and Beach Runs

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, June 24th, 2006 | No Comments

I’d like to start another regular feature highlighting what I wrote about during the week a year ago. A great way to get where you are going is to remember where you have been. Some of the highlights from this week last year: Friendly’s New England Mile: Race results from the first New England Mile [...]

Lance Armstrong accused (again) of doping

By Blaine Moore on Friday, June 23rd, 2006 | No Comments

One again, Lance Armstrong has been accused of doping. I am starting to get tired of reading about it, too… This time, Le Monde cycling magazine has reported leaked court testimony alleging that Lance Armstrong admitted to his doctors while he was going through chemotherapy in 1996 that he used EPO. The fun part of [...]

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