Run to Win

This week last year was dominated by the news, without as many tips, suggestions and strategies as last week.

• The animated series continued with how to do assisted pushups.
• Brendan Fitzgerald shared a story about the Penn Relays, and then randomly won a copy of Coast to Coast. It was the first book that I gave away from this site.
• The Back Cove 5k Race Series began the same week last year as it did this year. That isn’t a coincidence. In other locally relevant news, a Mainer climbed Mount Everest.
• In other running news, Justin Gatlin had a short lived world record in the 100 meter dash. On a different note, a jogger in Florida was killed by an alligator. Her name was Yovy Suarez Jimenez.
• I came close to concluding my thoughts on the New Rules of Lifting by discussing New Rule #18 (endurance exercise is unnecessary to burn fat) and New Rule #19 (Strength + Endurance = Endurance). Only one New Rule is left!

University of Maine professor John Bagnulo managed to summit Mount Everest on his 36^th birthday. His friend, Bill Yeo, did not manage to make the peak. Both men are safe and healthy at the base camp. The men collected soil samples along the way, and tested out nutritional supplements for high altitude climbing.
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