Dirigo running club went down to the Florida Keys this past weekend to run the Half Shells half marathon, and managed a 1-2-3 sweep. KEY WEST For the second consecutive year, runners from Maine dominated the Half Shell 1/2 Marathon although the change in climate was a rough transition for some. Last year David…
In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will wrote about exercise equipment throughout the month of January. This week, Scott provides an excellent overview of how to set up your home gym. He starts out describing the benefits of a home gym over a commercial gym, and the basic…
I went to watch the Boston Indoor Games this evening, and it was great. There was a lot of really good competition, and we got to see numerous meet and national records, as well as a world record 5k. Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopa absolutely crushed her old mark of 14:32.93 set two years ago. She…
There was a lot of news this week last year, most of which was good with some big announcements. I demonstrated how to do a dumbbell bench press in my animated series. The World Marathon Majors were announced, the first year of races having passed since then. And I was completely wrong about my prediction…
I did not lose my wedding ring at the pool today, but I am certainly going to remember to remove it the next time before I get in the water. It never left my finger, but not through lack of trying. Today was the first time that I got in the pool for about a…
A fresh new year tends to bring a less competitive season to those of us in the Northern hemisphere. As such, it is a good time to remind ourselves of why we race, as well as how we race. Winter races, at least for me, tend to be more of a social affair than a…
The NFL and the NFL Players Association have reached an agreement earlier today to improve testing for steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. The modifications include a 40 percent increase in the number of players randomly tested each week during the preseason, regular season and post-season from seven to 10 per team. Last year, the…
Steve Pavlina believes that health studies are worthless. He believes that no matter how altruistic somebody is, all health research is biased at some point by somebody with an agenda. He think that the real truth is not just hidden, but that in most cases it really is not relevant. Everybody is different, and even…
In a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about exercise equipment throughout the month of January. In a similar vein to a few weeks ago when I wrote about toys for runners, I would like to describe some of the safety equipment that you can get to…
This morning at the gym I discovered a new danger with swiss balls. I was doing swiss ball crunches in the corner when the ball jumped out from beneath me. Thankfully, it bounced off the wall and back into me, which kept me from hitting my back on the floor. Instead, my butt just dropped…