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I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. I'll take an angry moose any day.
There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.
Clearly, there are things a runner does, intentionally or not, that disrupt team cohesion. And there are also things a runner doesn't do that can... →
Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles... →
For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those... →
If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she... →
New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across... →
Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that... →
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only... →
Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.
Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.
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