1. I guess I am a “top-thirder.” What are you?
2. Pamela Anderson said last few miles of the marathon “like giving birth” I hear ya sister!
3. Woman who wore a Boston Marathon bombing Halloween costume blasts her critics
4. Recovery and the older runner ( a lesson I learned the hard way)
5. The role of the mantra, or positive self-talk, in pushing beyond your limits
Read this:
Sub Elite Runners Chase Improvement
And then read this:
In many ways marathoning is the modern version of Sisyphus and the stone. We try and try and train and train, and we hope that one day that stone stays at the top of the hill, but deep down, we know it won’t…perhaps we wish it won’t. For the journey is what makes me tick. The never ending quest for improvement, for a little more speed, a touch more stamina, a bigger smile at the finish line no matter how hard the race. There are days where I wish I didn’t have the stone, where I wish I could be lazy. But I need that stone. I love the stone. And I plan to push it up the hill for the rest of my life. For what is Sisyphus without his stone? Just an ordinary man, not myth or legend, or figure to cheer or pity. With his stone, his burden, his mission, he is the stuff of legend.
Sorry I missed links posts on Monday and Tuesday. I traveling and unable to compile them.
1. High School Runner drops out of race because her number was the “mark of the beast”
2. So sad.
3. Nice piece on “sub-elite” runners.
4. First runner with Down’s Syndrome to finish the NYC marathon
5. What I did this weekend.
1. NYC Marathon to be televised on ESPN
2. Bill Rodgers remembers his first NYC marathon
3. Top 5 International women to watch in NY
4. Top 5 international men to watch in NY
5. Seven things you didn’t know about the NYC Marathon
Happy Halloween!
1. Hill running is ALWAYS a good thing, no matter your level
2. Read this in my print edition of the mag and wanna get the book
3. The importance of interval training in Ultra running–if you want to go farther and faster easier
4. Nice perspective on the “too young to run” discussion
5. Man dressed as [Washington QB] Robert Griffin III juggled footballs as he ran MCM
1. Probably the best explanation of why starting too fast in a marathon is a bad idea
2. Drama!
3. Time spent exercising does not counter time spent sitting. (Time to look for my standing desk!)
4. The perfect warm up for running workouts. (for weightlifting, you warm up by eating bacon.)
5. Running 13.1 after a stroke
1. Really tingle-inducing article about Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter and my sport
2. The most important mile of her life
3. Nice slideshow from the Marine Corps Marathon
4. Cross Country gaining in popularity in Chicago. Good news for running as a whole
5. Marathoning a melting pot in NY
1. Charity running beginning to ebb. (Thanks Norm for the link)
2. “A day without running is not a day.”
3. Lots of politicians have run MCM (Clarence Thomas ran a 3:11?!)
4. Cool breakdown of registration cost distribution at MCM
5. Importance of a race-day strategy
1. 25 things non-runners don’t get about runners
2. The pain of tapering for a marathon (I do. I do feel like a “psychopathic hamster”)
3. How to avoid common running foot issues
4. Do calf raises prevent calf injuries in running
5. Profile of Janet Bawcom, who will run her first NYC marathon
1. Cool interview with Ian Sharman
2. Six year old runs half marathon.
3. Crazy ways to run a marathon
4. World’s first glow-in-the-dark path
5. How music helps your workouts
1. Ryan Hall has dropped out of the NYC Marathon. I love the guy, but what’s up with him–this keeps happening?
2. SF gives residents who wish to complain about the Nike Women’s Marathon a sex-phone line
3. No halloween masks allowed at the Marine Corps Marathon
4. Great read about Bill Rodgers and the NYC Marathon in 1976
5. New PBS show on speed explores, in part, running
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