Swimmers are endlessly hungry. I could eat a big meal and be hungry within an hour. Instead of eating a lot during one sitting, I learned to eat small and eat often. You should feel like you could go for a run after a meal.
Rebecca Soni (6-time Olympic medallist), in Eight top athletes share their nutrition tricks for a high-performing new year
Cumulatively, the data indicated that running, whatever someone’s pace or mileage, dropped a person’s risk of premature death by almost 40 percent, a benefit that held true even when the researchers controlled for smoking, drinking and a history of health problems such as hypertension or obesity.
An Hour of Running May Add 7 Hours to Your Life, April 13, 2017 at 11:20AM
One caveat: the participants in those studies were mostly white and middle class.
The athletes feared injury. If they were hurt, they could not train; if they could not train, they could not compete; if they did not compete, they could not earn money. There is no union, or sick pay, in road running.
“Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon” by Ed Caesar, April 14, 2017 at 11:35AM
The Berlin Marathon, once a pleasant but unremarkable jaunt through the Grunewald forest, was redirected through the streets of West Berlin in 1981. In doing so, it became part of the city for a day. After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the race was rerouted again so that it passed through the old East and West Berlin. In that first true city-wide race, on 30 September 1990, three days before Germany was officially reunified, many runners wept as they passed underneath the Brandenburg Gate.
“Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon” by Ed Caesar, April 09, 2017 at 07:52 PM
In these final moments of stillness, however, Mutai banished impure thoughts and the crowding, conflicted voices. He attempted to focus.
Psychologists talk about a Zen-like state of instinctual action in which the greatest sporting performances are attained. They call it Flow.
The French cyclist Jean Bobet described a similar but distinct experience called La Volupté, which ‘is delicate, intimate and ephemeral. It arrives, it takes hold of you, sweeps you up and then leaves you again. It is for you alone. It is a combination of speed and ease, force and grace. It is pure happiness.’
“Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon” by Ed Caesar, April 06, 2017 at 12:59 AM
Paying a coach won’t make you faster; listening to one will.
– The Running Blog, Guardian, January 27, 2017 at 10:56AM
Just as true for life, and career, as for running.
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