Parkrun Could Save America From Itself
Martin Fritz Huber/Outside Online, Mar 20, 2019
A free weekly 5K? What’s not to love.
When it comes to techno-utopianism, it’s hard to top Facebook’s mission statement. Apparently, the company is dedicated to “bringing the world closer together.” Personally, I find the dystopian counter-narrative—that “Big Tech” has us hopelessly atomized—more persuasive, but I’m trying to remain optimistic that the Internet isn’t irredeemably at odds with (non-virtual) community building. One of the more encouraging examples in recent years is an initiative called Parkrun...
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RRCA State Rep?
- Michael Bowen
- Pensacola, Florida, United States
- Husband. *Dog Dad.* Instructional Systems Specialist. Runner. (Swim-challenged) Triathlete (on hiatus). USATF LDR Surveyor. USAT (Elite Rules) CRO/2, NTO/1. RRCA Rep., FL (North). Observer Of The Human Condition.
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Outside: The Marathoner's Achilles Heel
How to Strengthen Your Ankles and Run Faster
Alex Hutchinson/Outside Online, Sep 13, 2018
New research zeroes in on an unlikely culprit for why running gets less efficient as you fatigue.
Anyone who has scrolled through their own marathon race photos knows that the keen-eyed high-stepper who shows up in the early photos bears little resemblance to the pathetic hobbler of the final miles. Fatigue changes your running form, and yet the vast majority of biomechanics studies involve a few minutes on a treadmill at a comfortable pace. There are some exceptions (like this recent field study of marathoners at the World Championships), but much of our knowledge about running form assumes that we never get tired...
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Alex Hutchinson/Outside Online, Sep 13, 2018
New research zeroes in on an unlikely culprit for why running gets less efficient as you fatigue.
Anyone who has scrolled through their own marathon race photos knows that the keen-eyed high-stepper who shows up in the early photos bears little resemblance to the pathetic hobbler of the final miles. Fatigue changes your running form, and yet the vast majority of biomechanics studies involve a few minutes on a treadmill at a comfortable pace. There are some exceptions (like this recent field study of marathoners at the World Championships), but much of our knowledge about running form assumes that we never get tired...
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Saturday, March 2, 2019
Outside: On Your Left?
Runners, Stick to This Side of the Road
Martin Fritz Huber/Outside, Mar 30 2015
If you keep tabs on aging rockers and their brushes with the law, chances are you read about a recent incident involving David Crosby and an ill-fated roadside runner in California. Crosby was driving about 50 miles per hour in a black Tesla when he slammed the runner from behind. The runner suffered several fractures and lacerations after impact, and needed to be airlifted to a Santa Barbara hospital. Crosby, 73, who was driving the speed limit at the time, maintained that he was blinded by the sun and didn’t see the runner, who is expected to make a full recovery.
It all seems like an unfortunate accident, but there’s a catch: The runner, it appears, was running with traffic, not against it. Though not illegal on a national level, that move goes against common sense...
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Martin Fritz Huber/Outside, Mar 30 2015
If you keep tabs on aging rockers and their brushes with the law, chances are you read about a recent incident involving David Crosby and an ill-fated roadside runner in California. Crosby was driving about 50 miles per hour in a black Tesla when he slammed the runner from behind. The runner suffered several fractures and lacerations after impact, and needed to be airlifted to a Santa Barbara hospital. Crosby, 73, who was driving the speed limit at the time, maintained that he was blinded by the sun and didn’t see the runner, who is expected to make a full recovery.
It all seems like an unfortunate accident, but there’s a catch: The runner, it appears, was running with traffic, not against it. Though not illegal on a national level, that move goes against common sense...
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Monday, February 18, 2019
Runner's World: From Sickness to Grand Slam
Once Drained by Multiple Sclerosis, She Is Now Headed for the Grand Slam of Ultras
Melissa Ossanna’s doctors told her exercise could help. So she started with a marathon—and has never looked back.
Taylor Dutch/Runner's World, Feb 17, 2019
Melissa Ossanna has a nickname among her community in Bar Harbor. To her friends on the island off the coast of Maine, the ultrarunner is affectionately known as “Smiley,” because when she logs miles around the town, she smiles from ear to ear.
Even at the finish line of a grueling 100-mile race, she can always be counted on to smile through the pain.
Ossanna has a lot to smile about...
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Melissa Ossanna’s doctors told her exercise could help. So she started with a marathon—and has never looked back.
Taylor Dutch/Runner's World, Feb 17, 2019
Melissa Ossanna has a nickname among her community in Bar Harbor. To her friends on the island off the coast of Maine, the ultrarunner is affectionately known as “Smiley,” because when she logs miles around the town, she smiles from ear to ear.
Even at the finish line of a grueling 100-mile race, she can always be counted on to smile through the pain.
Ossanna has a lot to smile about...
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Saturday, February 2, 2019
Outside: How To Turn Dreadmill To Treadmill?
The Science Behind Your Favorite Workout Playlist
Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato/Outside, Jan 31, 2019
...For years, scientists have studied the link between music and heart rate. In 2005, a team of researchers found that listening to music with a fast tempo could speed up heart rates, while a leisurely tempo could slow them down. Furthermore, crescendos—where the volume of a song gradually rises—can increase heart rates, while decrescendos have the opposite effect, according to a small study from 2009 published in the journal Circulation. Although scientists aren’t certain why and how these interactions happen physiologically, relaxing music could be used to maintain a level of serenity for lower-intensity activities like yoga. “I always set my metronome at 60 [bpm] because it’s lower than the normal heart rate, and it helps me relax,” says Rodney Garnett, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Wyoming. “Something that has a slower beat gets a different response than something that has a fast beat..."
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Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato/Outside, Jan 31, 2019
...For years, scientists have studied the link between music and heart rate. In 2005, a team of researchers found that listening to music with a fast tempo could speed up heart rates, while a leisurely tempo could slow them down. Furthermore, crescendos—where the volume of a song gradually rises—can increase heart rates, while decrescendos have the opposite effect, according to a small study from 2009 published in the journal Circulation. Although scientists aren’t certain why and how these interactions happen physiologically, relaxing music could be used to maintain a level of serenity for lower-intensity activities like yoga. “I always set my metronome at 60 [bpm] because it’s lower than the normal heart rate, and it helps me relax,” says Rodney Garnett, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Wyoming. “Something that has a slower beat gets a different response than something that has a fast beat..."
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Outside: She's In My Rear View
Are Women Closing in on Men at the Boston Marathon?
Alex Hutchinson/Outside, Jan 28, 2019
A detailed analysis of historical Boston results wades into the long-running debate on sex differences in endurance
Back in 1992, scientists at UCLA made a surprising prediction in Nature. Since women’s marathon times were improving more quickly than men’s, they forecast that women would surpass men in 1998. While that didn’t come to pass, the idea that women might be closing the gap in endurance races persists, thanks to the feats of athletes like Jasmin Paris, the ultrarunner who shattered the overall course record in the 168-mile Montane Spine Race in Britain earlier this month, and Camille Herron, who beat the entire field while setting a women’s 24-hour running record in December.
But you can only learn so much from individual stories, no matter how remarkable. That’s where a new analysis in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research comes in...
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Alex Hutchinson/Outside, Jan 28, 2019
A detailed analysis of historical Boston results wades into the long-running debate on sex differences in endurance
Back in 1992, scientists at UCLA made a surprising prediction in Nature. Since women’s marathon times were improving more quickly than men’s, they forecast that women would surpass men in 1998. While that didn’t come to pass, the idea that women might be closing the gap in endurance races persists, thanks to the feats of athletes like Jasmin Paris, the ultrarunner who shattered the overall course record in the 168-mile Montane Spine Race in Britain earlier this month, and Camille Herron, who beat the entire field while setting a women’s 24-hour running record in December.
But you can only learn so much from individual stories, no matter how remarkable. That’s where a new analysis in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research comes in...
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Runner's World: Dog Is My Training Partner
Who Rescued Whom? Dog Adopts Elite Athlete
An abandoned mutt, who can handle 6-minute miles, turns up on a running trail and encounters a 2:32 marathoner.
Sarah Lorge Butler/Runner's World, Jan 30, 2019
Dog works in mysterious ways.
How else to explain the mystery of an abandoned dog that found the single best runner in Ocala, Florida? Stephanie Pezzullo was running in mid-December along the Santos Trail, a paved route winding out of the city. There were no other people in sight. No runners, no walkers, no cyclists. It was the middle of the day, a cold one by Central Florida standards.
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An abandoned mutt, who can handle 6-minute miles, turns up on a running trail and encounters a 2:32 marathoner.
Sarah Lorge Butler/Runner's World, Jan 30, 2019
Dog works in mysterious ways.
How else to explain the mystery of an abandoned dog that found the single best runner in Ocala, Florida? Stephanie Pezzullo was running in mid-December along the Santos Trail, a paved route winding out of the city. There were no other people in sight. No runners, no walkers, no cyclists. It was the middle of the day, a cold one by Central Florida standards.
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