Tip: Ride your bike with traffic
When riding your bicycle down the road, you should always ride with traffic (except where local laws state otherwise) because it is much safer for you. You want to ride with traffic because…
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Phedippidations review: “Run Long, and Taper”
Last week I discovered Phedippidations over at SteveRunner.com. I have been working my way through the archives and have gotten through almost 20 of the episodes already. Steve is a middle of the pack marathoner who records the majority of his show on his Sunday long runs, and then edits it together into (something of)…
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New York City Marathon Qualifying Standards (2006)
The New York City Marathon qualifying standards are not what I thought that they were. When I ran a 2:52:37 in the Mystic Places Marathon, I thought that I was 2½ minutes away from an automatic qualifying time for the ING New York City Marathon. I thought that I needed to beat 2 hours and…
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Traffic Milestone: 100 folk in one day
Well, my traffic has been going up lately, and I’ve hit a milestone. It may be a small one, but I’ll take it. And since I was planning on running a contest anyway, I’ll use that as an excuse to tell everybody I’m going to be giving away a book. Details should be available in…
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Do you taper for a 10k?
Liv over at Liv to Run wonders whether or not she should taper for a 10k. My Smartcoach schedule has me running my highest mileage ever in this, the second-to-last week before the race, and a hard long tempo only two days before. Should I stick to this, or would it be better to cut…
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How To: Pushups
How to perform pushups with an animated image showing the move. Click on the picture to see the full sized animation.
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Is it a gym, or is it a zoo?
I remember now why it is that I normally lift weights at six o’clock in the morning. At 6 o’clock in the evening, the gym is a zoo. There are people everywhere! It is fit to make you claustrophobic. All of the cardiovascular machines have heaving, sweaty people on them. The tanning booth desk has…
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50 Marathons 50 States 50 Days
One of my goals in life is to run a marathon in every state. I do not have any interest (right now) in races longer than the marathon. I have previously written about Dean Karnazes when I reviewed his book Ultramarathon Man. Things do not seem to have changed much in his life. His latest…
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New Rule #13: A good warm-up may not make you warm
Every weekend over the next few months, I am going to be examining each of the New Rules of Lifting from Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove’s new book. This is rule #13. A good warm-up doesn’t have to make your body warm.
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New Rule #12: Fast Lifting is not more dangerous than slow lifting
Every weekend over the next few months, I am going to be examining each of the New Rules of Lifting from Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove’s new book. This is rule #12. Fast Lifting is not more dangerous than slow lifting.