It took 5 weeks to decondition

Archive for August, 2006

It took 5 weeks to decondition

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, August 31st, 2006 | 3 Comments

The story usually goes that you increase your mileage a bit too fast and you get hurt. Or you just do a few too many workouts one week that your body is not ready to handle. Whatever the case may be, you may find yourself with some random aches and pains that you just can [...]

Running Mania Forums

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 | No Comments

I recently found the Running Mania Forums, and have started poking around in them. There is a lot of good stuff. I did not realise it when I first went there, but it is apparently for those funny folk north of the border. They don’t seem to mind having a Yank drop his thoughts in, [...]

Why 50 Marathons in 50 days is impressive

By Blaine Moore on Monday, August 28th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I have written previously about how Dean Karnazes and Sam Thompson were running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days. By the way, Sam finished his marathons on the 22nd of August. Today, I am going to use those 50 marathon events as examples of why doing something like that is impressive. The reason [...]

2006 Lewiston-Auburn 5k Bridge Run

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, August 27th, 2006 | No Comments

The L-A 5K Bridge Run was this morning, and course records were set on both sides of the gender line. Kristen Barry won the race in 17:19 to beat the women’s 2002 record of 17:36 set by Tina Meserve, and Ethan Hemphill broke Scott Brown‘s 2003 record of 15:44 by 30 seconds, coming in at [...]

This Week Last Year: Drugs, Bombs, and World Records

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, August 26th, 2006 | No Comments

This week last year was actually fairly eventful. One of my most popular articles about Lance Armstrong were published this week last year after he had to deny more doping charges (which also had a follow up article a few days later.) I also wrote a detailed article about what EPO is. Eric Rudolph was [...]

Athletes Against Doping

By Blaine Moore on Friday, August 25th, 2006 | No Comments

I was reading over on Joan Nesbit Mabe’s site and saw that she was supporting a new organization called “Athletes Against Doping“. Their message is fairly simple and straight forward: Today it isn’t good enough to be just a good athlete by running fast, jumping higher, etc. An athlete has to be a good student [...]

Complete Running Network first impressions

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, August 24th, 2006 | 5 Comments

The Complete Running Network launched at the beginning of the week, and I would like to share my first impressions of the service.

Running takes practice

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, August 24th, 2006 | No Comments

Over at Complete Running, Jank wrote an article about teaching his six year old to run by jogging to the end of the block and back. We’re set up, physiologically, to sprint. The whole “Fight-or-Flight” response, and that instinct, is what�s honed in us for most of our lives [...] Which is when it hit [...]

Will Italy be banned from world cup soccer?

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 | 2 Comments

The Juventus soccer club in Italy has recently been given a very hefty fine for match fixing. They have threatened to bring the matter before an administrative court to plead their case that they do not deserve such harsh penalties. There is a small problem with that course of action, however.

Complete Running Network is now online!

By Blaine Moore on Monday, August 21st, 2006 | 4 Comments

For those who have been anticipating it, and for those who have no idea what it is, the Complete Running website has redesigned itself, hired over a dozen new writers, and is now live! You can find them at CompleteRunning.com. When I first looked at their home page, I found it very humorous. Why? It [...]

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