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posted by troll
on Dec 22, 2011 -
20 comments
I'm a Runner. Yes, the interview series is best known for the
Sarah Palin cover, but
Runner's World has managed to snag quite a variety of famous pavement-pounders, including
Wait Wait host
Peter Sagal, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist
Flea, singer
Shawn Colvin, Al Roker
Al Roker, Episcopal bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori, HHS Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius, and
another Palin you may know and love.
posted by psoas
on Nov 18, 2011 -
24 comments
"Running Alphabet is a project by the designer and runner Joan Pons Moll. The purpose of it is to run every character from the alphabet, captured by GPS and create a complete typeface from it. This is a collaborative initiative so if you are interested in running a letter go to participate and follow the instructions. Ready, Type, Go!"
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posted by OmieWise
on Aug 11, 2011 -
17 comments
Yesterday, July 6th, was the first day of
San Fermín or Sanfermines in Pamplona, in celebration of
Saint Fermín. As is tradition,
it starts with a rocket, and turns into
a giant, joyous, drunken party in the streets. The
events to follow have changed over the centuries, with the addition of Riau Riau in 1914 (
actual singing,
words and lyrics,
Spanish Wiki page with lyrics) in 1914, and most recently,
leaving of candles and red bandanas at
the Church of San Lorenzo, following the singing of
Pobre de Mi. Oh, and there's
the running of the bulls (
route,
photos from yesterday's run,
previously).
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jul 7, 2011 -
9 comments
24 year old Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru
died yesterday in Nyahururu, Kenya after "falling" from a balcony.
Sammy set a world record for the half marathon of 58:53 in the United Arab Emirates in 2007, only to best it again two months later in the Netherlands, with a 58:35. He won five marathons, setting an Olympic record of 2:06:32 in 2008, and a personal best of 2:05:10 in London in 2009. He might be best remembered for his
dramatic win in Chicago in 2010.
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posted by roomthreeseventeen
on May 16, 2011 -
28 comments
Since approximately
26% of Canadian children age 2-17 are now considered obese, few would disagree that drastic measures are warranted. A dude and his wife have decided that the best way to inspire kids to get some exercise outdoors is to
run daily marathons across the country.
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posted by sarastro
on Dec 17, 2010 -
41 comments
"
Holland Reynolds, a star runner from a small private high school in San Francisco, collapsed at the state cross-country meet and crawled across the finish line to clinch the championship for her team." Her coach, Jim Tracy, had been increasingly debilitated by Lou Gehrig's disease during the season, which made her and the team "really want to win it for Jim." The video of the race is
here. Holland Reynolds approaches the finish line at 19 minutes 33 seconds into the video.
posted by ferdydurke
on Dec 3, 2010 -
40 comments
“Several of you told me that I was “going to die” if I drank 13 beers while running the San Francisco Half Marathon. I did not die. I puked three times, blacked out for miles 11 and 12, and needed five hours to finish.
This is my story.”
posted by sveskemus
on Aug 3, 2010 -
64 comments
Next weekend, thousands of runners will take to the streets of San Francisco to run the
SF Marathon, on a course with hills that skate a 300 ft. elevation about
six times over 26.2 miles. However, the non-corporately sponsored marathon attracts few than a third of the runners who tackle New York City and Chicago. While the organizers are trying to
re-brand the race, offering
two different half marathon courses, they have shied away from making the course any easier.
posted by roomthreeseventeen
on Jul 15, 2010 -
26 comments
Running is actually good for your knees, if you haven't suffered knee injuries in the past.
[D]espite entrenched mythology to the contrary, runners don’t seem prone to degenerating knees. An important 2008 study, this one from Stanford University, followed middle-aged, longtime distance runners (not necessarily marathoners) for nearly 20 years, beginning in 1984, when most were in their 50s or 60s. At that time, 6.7 percent of the runners had creaky, mildly arthritic knees, while none of an age-matched control group did. After 20 years, however, the runners’ knees were healthier; only 20 percent showed arthritic changes, versus 32 percent of the control group’s knees. Barely 2 percent of the runners’ knees were severely arthritic, while almost 10 percent of the control group’s were.
posted by caddis
on Aug 18, 2009 -
81 comments
Today is the first
National Running Day in the US, with
events taking place in metropolises like
Boston,
Chicago,
New York,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, and
Houston, as well as smaller communities like
Chautauqua, New York. If you're not comfortable with running, you can try the
Run Walk method, or start your
Couch to 5k schedule. If you're already a runner, you may want to think up some creative ways to
make today even more running-y. [Previously:
no fancy shoes necessary]
posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 3, 2009 -
13 comments
The
circumnavigators are out there. In February,
Mike Beaumont completed the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle. Tomorrow,
Rosie Swale, age 62, finishes her 4 1/2 year run around the world. As posted
previously, Zac Sunderland is now attempting to break the record for the youngest sailing circumnavigation of the planet, now held by
Jesse Martin.
posted by Xurando
on Aug 24, 2008 -
9 comments
"When we're running, you can't tell. When people look at us, they don't point and go, 'Yeah, he's homeless, she's not, she's educated.'"
Mahlum explained, "You look and say, 'Oh, look at the runners.' That's a positive association, because there's no separation."
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posted by stagewhisper
on Dec 21, 2007 -
8 comments
"In 1968, I received an invitation to the hundred-mile run at Walton-on-Thames, England, scheduled for October 1969. I pulled out all the stops for this one, running every marathon possible and enduring unheard-of training mileage when not racing.
In July alone I ran a thousand miles, two hundred short of my goal[...]My only goal was to break the existing American record of 16:07:43." (Which he did, finishing in 13:33; still the U.S. 45 to 49 100-mile record.) Ted Corbitt, Olympian, American Record holder at 100 miles, died yesterday.
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posted by OmieWise
on Dec 13, 2007 -
13 comments
