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Running with your ears on, Redux

I recently came across this article relating to the USA Track & Field regulation against wearing headphones in sanctioned events. Here’s the opening paragraph:
At the peak of the marathon season, with one of the year’s biggest races set for Sunday in New York, a worry has emerged among some runners, and it has nothing to [...]

9.74, and so it goes…

On Sep. 9th in Rieti, Italy Astafa Powell set a new world record in the Mens 100m sprint. The new record time is 9.74; three hundredths of a second faster then the previous record — also set by Powell. Three hundredths is the largest jump since Maurice Green lowered the mark by five hundredths in [...]

Human Race 8K Report

Preamble
It’s been a while since I ran a race. Something like seven weeks, so it was time to start a hopeful summer of working primarily on speed. Swim speed, run speed, bike speed, [...]

8.94774517

Today, I did a little math and arrived at the following answer: 8.94774517. What, you might ask, is the significance of this number? Here’s the rest of the story…
While I was reading a discussion on support of various web browsers, there was a [...]

It’s not whether you win…

Sascha pointed me to Bolder in Boulder’s post titled My ordinary life because she thought that I would enjoy it. The post includes the following quote:
Sometimes, I think that I am extraordinary, and then I step in a pool, on a bike, or on a run. Tonight is my last Boulder Stroke & Stride of [...]

Running with your ears on

I have lost count over the years of the number of people I have told to not listen to music while running. Well, Runners’ World has recently published an article titled Listen while you run. To all those who have suffered through listening to my opinion, I’m still sticking to my guns. However, you can [...]

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