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My Name is Big

By on Thursday, March 1st, 2012 | No Comments

Lazarus Lake is well known in ultra-running circles not only for his own running but for the great races that he puts on, including Vol State, the Barkeley Marathons, and Big’s Backyard Ultra. A few years ago, he found a pitbull that had been abandoned and shot at the edge of his property, and decided [...]

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Announcing the 2012 Runner’s Almanac

By on Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | 2 Comments

The 2012 Runner’s Almanac has officially become available as of this afternoon. On November 29, I tried to go to bed early, but I had an idea. So I got up to write down some notes and went back to bed. Then I got up to take more notes. This went on until instead of [...]

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Relentless Forward Progress – Book Review

By on Monday, August 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Relentless Forward Progress is a great introduction to ultramarathons for the average marathoner. Bryon Powell does a good job of covering a lot of different topics that the curious marathoner would want to know about taking the next step. Where he falls short, however, is in the format that that information is presented in, at [...]

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Run to Overcome Book Review

By on Monday, November 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments

Olympic silver medalist, Mebrahtom Keflezighi, is one of the best, if not the best distance runner that the US has produced in the last few years. This weekend, he’s going to be trying to defend his New York City Marathon title, as he joins up with some of the best runners in the world. It’s [...]

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Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back From the Dead (Review)

By on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Over the last few months I’ve been making my way through the Pure Fit Radio archives, and on one of the episodes they did an interview with Bryan Boyle. It sounded like an interesting story that he had, so I picked up his book, Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back From [...]

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The Barefoot Running Book Contest Winner

By on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Last week, I reviewed The Barefoot Running Book, and found that it was short, to the point, and was a great primer for somebody that is venturing out into barefoot running for the first time. Many of the lessons could easily be learned on your own, but knowing what to expect and following a plan [...]

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The Barefoot Running Book (A Review)

By on Friday, July 9th, 2010 | 6 Comments

Jason Robillard was kind enough to send me a copy of his new book, The Barefoot Running Book, which is intended for new barefoot or minimalist shoe runner’s to help them find the proper form and learn how to run without getting injured. Overview Jason splits the book into 4 main sections for the different [...]

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Win A Copy of The Barefoot Running Book

By on Friday, July 9th, 2010 | 27 Comments

I am giving away a free copy of The Barefoot Running Book to one lucky reader! All you need to do is leave a comment below sharing your experience (or lack thereof) with barefoot running. You have until Tuesday evening (July 13, 2010) at 8:00 pm EDT to leave your comment, after which I will [...]

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7 Weeks to 100 Pushups book review

By on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 | 2 Comments

In early/mid 2008, my friend Steve Speirs started a website to help people do 100 consecutive pushups. If you ever visited a fitness blog around that time then you undoubtedly saw people making the attempt using Steve’s training schedules (many of whom succeeded, I might add.) Fast forward a year, and in June of 2009 [...]

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Chris McDougall Appears on The Daily Show

By on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments

A popular book that came out recently is Born To Run by Christopher McDougall. (I’ll have a review up on the book one of these days – it was a good read.) If you’re familiar with the book, then you’ll get a kick out of Chris’s appearance on the Daily Show last night (click through [...]

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