I just heard from Ryan Pancoast that he will be doing a book signing for Coast to Coast on Friday, October 6th, at the Brick City Festival in Rochester, New York. There should also be a few of the other runners from the transcontinental relay there as well. You can catch up with the runners…
Chariots of Fire is a movie about Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, two very talented runners in the early 1920s. Two men with the same goal but who have vastly different approaches to attaining that goal and to living their life. Eric Liddell is a devout follower of his faith who thinks that his running…
Breaking Away is a dated movie. It reeks of the 70s. Not that that is a bad thing, but I don’t think that it really translates very well for younger folk. Maybe the younger folk will watch it and disagree with me. The basic story is about a kid who graduates from high school and…
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,…
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…
The Complete Running Network launched at the beginning of the week, and I would like to share my first impressions of the service.
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…
The Long Run is a movie about an old coach in South Africa who is obsessed with the Comrades Ultra-Marathon. After getting fired from his job and losing the right to coach his four runners, he discovers an illegal immigrant with the raw talent to win the race. He attempts to control everything about her…
Over the past week I had a series of posts about the care and maintenance of running shoes. In case you missed any of them, they were: The Care and Maintenance of Running Shoes Keep your shoes dry but not near heat Keep your shoes dry by pulling the insoles out Remove rocks and mud…
Has this ever happened to you? You go to the shoe store, get your feet fitted for shoes, and they fit perfectly. Then by the time you finish your first run, they are so tight that you have trouble getting them off. This is a not uncommon problem, and it comes from trying on shoes…