Nomar Garciaparra rescues two women from drowning

by | News

Nomar Garciaparra was visiting with his uncle Victor last week in Boston when two women fell into the water, one bumping her head and going unconscious. Nomar sprinted down to the women while his uncle jumped off a 20 foot balcony into the water to rescue the two...

Contact Sports contribute to Alzheimers

by | Injuries, News

The Science Blog has an article about how concussions promote dementia in retired football players, which was mentioned over at Make Stupidity History. I do not necessarily agree with the interpretation by the folks at MSH, but I thought that the original article...

Armless, legless wrestler still successful

by | News, Sports

Kyle Maynard has no arms or legs, having been born with his arms ending at his elbows and his legs ending at his knees. He has managed to overcome his handicap, and become a competitive wrestler who has managed to win 35 times on the varsity squad his senior year....

Alcohol in an un/healthy lifestyle

by | Food & Beverage

The Health and Fitness blog has an article about America’s contradictory stances on alcohol. It references a New York Times article on the subject. The main gist of both articles is how drinking is both promoted and treated with kid gloves in the media and how...

Working out in inclement weather

by | Fitness, Workout Tips

What to do when an outdoor workout is scheduled for a day when the weather is less than ideal? Perhaps you want to do a speed workout, but it is extremely hot and humid, or perhaps it is snowing with 40 mile per hour winds. Or maybe you just want to go for a bike ride...

No more Red Sox this year…

by | Sports

The Red Sox have been swept, and will not be continuing on with their post season. I am not really surprised, though; they barely made it into the post-season as was. It would have been nice to have a repeat of last year, but if they are going to insist in putting...

More cosmetic work on this site

by | Run To Win Website

I have been doing more cosmetic work on this website. This post is to let my readers know about it, and to test some of it for functionality. Two birds with one stone, as I figure it. I am playing with making it easy to add related posts to new posts, and I have...

Running Dog Sports

by | Reviews, Stores

Running Dog Sports is a new running shoe specialty store located in Gorham, Maine that opened in May of 2005. I have seen the owner, Kathy Hepner, at many of the local races as both a participant and as a sponsor. She is very actively involved in the community. I...

No more NoFollow in comments

by | Run To Win Website

When I was looking over a comment that I made in my post about managing hunger to stay fat, I realized that my new blogging software butchered my link. Then I realized that it was set as NoFollow. I figure that if somebody wants to go to the bother of commenting on my...

Managing Hunger to stay fat

by | Fitness, Food & Beverage

I was reading earlier about tips to control hunger, which goes on about how a calorie deficit is the best way to lose weight. The problem with a calorie deficit, though, is that if you do not eat enough then you will actually get fatter because your metabolism will...