Swimming Tip: Remember to tie your shorts

Archive for February, 2007

Swimming Tip: Remember to tie your shorts

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Photo by richelleantipoloThis tip does not apply to people who use speedos or other tight swim trunks. It is for the average men like myself that just use a regular old beach bathing suit when they swim laps in the pool. Before you get in, remember to tie your draw string and make sure that [...]

How many pairs of shoes do you need to be a runner?

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 | 4 Comments

One thing that I have been asked a few times is how many pairs of shoes somebody needs to consider themselves a runner. A more frequent question is how many pairs of running shoes do I own. There is no one easy answer to this, and the answer depends slightly on how you train or [...]

RIT loses, Jan Ullrich retires, and football players weigh in

By Blaine Moore on Monday, February 26th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Rather than writing on different news notes that I have noticed from over the weekend, I thought (for the sake of brevity) that I’d just link to the interesting articles. Saturday evening, I went to the RIT at Bentley hockey game. RIT lost by one point, 7-6. There were probably about 8 or 9 RIT [...]

A book on Bending

By Blaine Moore on Monday, February 26th, 2007 | No Comments

In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we wrote about books throughout the month of February. This week Scott takes a look at the Diesel Crew electronic book on how to get started in the wonderful world of Bending. Bending is taking pieces of metal, such as nails and pipes, [...]

This Week Last Year: Polar Bear Wrestling and Banditing Deer

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, February 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments

This week last year was pretty light article wise, but what was there was mostly worth reading. There were some amazing stories about people and animals, and I offer some great workout tips with a book review. Meaty stuff! In a counterpoint to the week before’s animated article, this week last year I continued the [...]

The doping case against Floyd Landis just got weaker…

By Blaine Moore on Friday, February 23rd, 2007 | 5 Comments

It seems that as far as doping labs go, they can never seem to get anything right. It was not too long ago that an 7 year old anonymous blood sample that had no control samples (since the control samples had been previously tested came back negative) seemingly proved Lance Armstrong was a doper. With [...]

Why is there always a headwind when running or biking?

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 | No Comments

Photo by penmachineOne thing that most runners or cyclists will notice at some point in their career is that there is always a headwind. No matter which direction you are running or biking in, North, South, East or West, you can never avoid a headwind. You may be running or riding a circular loop, such [...]

Sleep is important, especially for children

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 | 3 Comments

A study has found that kids who do not get enough sleep are more likely to be overweight than their peers who do get enough sleep. The researchers found that children who got less sleep were more likely to be overweight and have higher body mass index measures than those who got more sleep, even [...]

When was the last time you ran 4000 miles across the Sahara Desert?

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments

This afternoon, three runners finished running across the Sahara Desert. The entire Sahara Desert. They ran from Senegal to Egypt, 44 to 50 miles per day, for 111 days. Did I mention that they did that in the Sahara Desert? American Charlie Engle, Canadian Ray Zahab, and Taiwanese Kevin Lin ran across the desert in [...]

Our brains ignore calories from beverages

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 | 4 Comments

I wrote a couple years ago about how drinking sugar water can lead to weight gain, because your body does not feel as full when you consume the calories in a liquid form. The Kansas City infoZine News has an article this week that covers some research into why we do not feel as full [...]

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