Five to start the week:
1. A ton of info here, and some lessons for us to heed
2. Dealing with ankle sprains
3. Great news for all of you who have dome the NYC Triathlon
4. Your easy days are too hard and your hard days too easy
5. Coatman! (link found through Competitor.com)
Five to start your weekend:
1. How far do players in different sports run?
2. The voice of Winnie the Pooh reads Darth Vader’s lines from Star Wars!!!!!! (Thanks Van)
3. “Malicious fecal distribution“!!!!!! and For pete’s sake, find a bush!!! (Thanks Ultra Runner Podcast)
4. She walked 800 miles away from cancer
5. While this may be true for simple tasks, Rookie has yet to take out the trash!
Remember, malicious fecal distribution is not nice! Just say NO!
Five:
1. Running rhetoric. Cool post
2. Big Sur sells out in 59 minutes
3. Badwater 135 pics
4. This seems a pretty cool idea.
5. One bad mutha
Five for hump day
1. She ran 366 marathons in one year
2. Is repetition in training better than variation in training
3. We did this when my friend Megan trained for Boston!
4. Okay. I will! (I wanna coach someday)
5. Really fun race report. I can see myself doing one of these some day
Hump this day!
1. Watch the second video all the way through, and be inspired.
2. Funny stuff from “The Oatmeal”
There will be only two links today. Because I want you to read the oatmeal post, I want you to know that THIS is why I run. This is why I always will run. Why I will never pursue other athletic interests that aren’t related to running. Why I won’t lift big, why I won’t become a competitive chess player, why I won’t become anything other than the best runner I can be. It saved me from myself and my destructive habits. It gave me a chance to grow healthy and see my sons grow old and into their current funny smelling, crabby teen and pre-teen selves, and eventually into funny smelling adults with kids. Running gave me and continues to give me things that NO OTHER sport will ever come close to providing me. This is why I run. The Oatmeal story is my story too.
Five links tomorrow.
I found my happiness. Go find yours today.
Five to start your week:
1. Wish there were more gyms like this
2. Read this twice to get what he is saying, but it is an intriguing study.
3. This post moved me
4. He’s run 100 marathons, and on all 7 continents
5. Great advice for runners with regard to cross-training, spot on!
Have a great week!
Five to kick off the weekend:
1. 100 Years of Tour de France bikes
2.Don’t overuse the fasted run (I’m guilty of this)
3. Fun indoor bike/core workout
4. Happy Birthday Quadrathon blog!!!!!!!!!
5. Top 5 reasons people fall on the trail.
Have a great weekend.
Five:
1. Really interesting research on stride rate
2. The 10 best dog breeds for runners
3. I’m sorry, but I’m confused. There are “performance plaid shirts?!”
4. Is the high elbow pull the best stroke for freestyle swimming?
5. Hilarious post from The Bike Snob
Inspire someone today
Five:
1. Exercises that may correct common running form issues
2.Cycling’s 50 golden rules
3. Cross training tips for cyclists
4. Basic info on the Tour de France (from last year, but still good info)
5. Too many people over-react to discomfort when running…
If you aren’t uncomfortable, then you are stagnating. Work.
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
This Running Life 