Five: 1. Link between age and calf injuries? 2. Race report from the Women’s winner of Western States–Pam Smith 3. Running facts and trivia 4. Racing a mile at Pikes Peak?  ooookay 5. Such an interesting interview with Timothy Olson   Find your purpose.

Five to start your week: 1. The Ultra you cannot finish 2. Hunger affects decision making (like whether I should kill you because I am so hungry!) 3. Cool Tour de France gallery 4. Early story lines from the Tour 5. How cities are beefing event security post-Boston Have a great week

Five: 1. This is great advice that I don’t always heed.  But am now! 2. Certifiably nuts. 3. The ‘Noog is a wonderful place to run trails. I plan to run some there next year 4. The Rails-to-Trails program is a wonderful, and historical, resource for runners 5. Wow.  Just wow Have a great weekend.

Five for the Independence day Holiday! 1. Very good advice and perspective here 2. This photo set inspires me 3. The clearest and most succinct tips on running in the heat I’ve seen. 4. This is AWESOME 5. The Western States roundup courtesy of iRunFar Run because you are free!

Five: 1. What does Killian Jornet eat? 2. How to race a marathon (“For every minute you are too fast in the first half, it will cost you two in the second half.”) 3. State of the running industry 4. Cool idea. 5. I’m trying to take more risks in training, be unafraid of failure…

Five to end the week: 1. The most difficult marathon in the world? Look at the elevation profile 2. Trail running etiquette when it comes to, err, Number 1 and Number 2 3. Nice profile of Amy Sproston 4. Pronation and running injuries 5. “i might run 180 miles a week” (ed. – DANG!) Run safe this…

Five for Thursday: 1. Love this tip. (Wanna pick his brain about the 26.2!) 2. Eight trends in trail running 3. When should your child start running? 4. This is how I feel when I’m in a triathlon (Thanks “Running is Funny” blog) 5. Climbing like a Tour rider   Go build your future today

Five for your hump day pleasure: 1. Have fun! 2. Buzzards + runners = fun! 3. I’ve posted links like this before, but it bears repeating! 4. My dabbles in ultras has led me to become a fan of these three amazing women 5. Gonna see a lot of this come July, so here’s a…

Five for Tuesday: 1. Great WS preview by Karl Meltzer 2. Training with Coach Harvey (not me!) 3. Two easy exercises to strengthen glutes 5. Why is running so popular, yet so little watched? Run happy

Monday Five: 1. Van Halen rockin’ on the track! 2. Wow. 904 marathons. 3. Dubai Security guard gets second at The San Francisco Marathon 4. Desi Davila’s pump-up playlist 5. My dream is to write race reports like Scott Dunlap Go get your dream today

Five: 1. Oooooooh.  Geek me out! 2. The 12-hour treadmill challenge?! 3. How cyclists are perceived in a car dominated society 4. Cool interval workout! 5. The world’s least motivational marathon signs. (Thanks Megan for the link!)