Improving Hip Internal and External Rotation: Hip Mobility from Z-Health
If you sit a lot or have tight hip compressed hips, you might find that this hip mobility mobilization from Z-Health gives you more space in your hips and help get you out of pain of stiffness. I felt...
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2015 Year in Review
After running 4 miles in Kenya!The good news about this year is that I started what I hope is a small running comeback at the end of 2015. My heart never strays far from my love for running, but I have...
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Foundation Training Basics
I do variations of The Founder just about daily as it is a great exercise for my hips and lower back and helps my body to learn to move better. Here Foundation Training founder Eric Goodman gives a...
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10 Commandments of Lifelong Fitness from Ned Overend
Outside Online has a great article on champion cyclist Ned Overend who has been at it for yearsNed Overend Is the Champion Cyclist Who Never Grows Old. Definitely read the article for all its wisdom...
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2016 Great Edinburgh XCountry International Challenge
For the third year in a row I made sure that I was watching the Great Edinburgh XC race in Scotland on Saturday morning. Number one, it is a great race to watch during the winter season: number two,...
View ArticleIn Edinburgh with Garrett Heath: Short documentary
Here is a short documentary on Garrett Heath before and after his race win at the Great Edinburgh XC Challenge. See previous post: 2016 Great Edinburgh XCountry International Challenge.
View ArticleDrew Hunter runs a sub 4 minute mile to set a new high school indoor record
Here is the USATF video of the one mile race at the Armory Track in which high school runner Drew Hunter broke the 4 minute mile for the first time and set a new high school indoor record. Alan Webb,...
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Going to be heading up Mt. Washington on my ElliptiGO!
First off, I was a bit disappointed that there would be no east coast ElliptiGO race this year to get me hyped up and training harder. The previous three New England races were a blast and got me in a...
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Is this your running personality?
The results of this study on runners sounds about right!"The Cattell 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire showed that the subjects were significantly more intelligent, imaginative, reserved,...
View ArticleResistance Band Work for Flexibility and Mobility
Despite not looking like a skinny runner, this guy gives some great tips and pointers-along with excellent reasoning.This one is suburb for me. I put the band around a bedpost and wrap it around the...
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Rollga: Is this the best foam roller ever made?
I have so many different kinds of foam rollers, massage sticks and balls for rolling that I could set up my own PT practice!They live all throughout my house in corners and closets and under beds, but...
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Gun Runners: A Story about Friends, Guns, and Running
This is an interesting new documentary that was played at a Canadian Film Festival over the weekendFrom the National Film Board of Canada:When it comes to world-class marathon runners, Kenyans are...
View ArticleTwo great stretches for the glutes and the piriformis
Here Matt Hsu of Upright Health demonstrates a glute stretch that hits the spot! Most stretches I do irritate my glutes. This one can hit where I feel real tight without the irritation the next day....
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Minimalist Muscle Activation: Crush Structural Imbalances, Find Clarity in...
Minimalist Muscle Activation: Crush Structural Imbalances, Find Clarity in Your Movement, and Live Pain-Free and Strong Now and in the Future is a new ebook by Sean Schiederdjan. I just bought my copy...
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Hit Reset: Revolutionary Yoga for Athletes by Erin Taylor
I have only had Hit Reset: Revolutionary Yoga for Athletes by Erin Taylor for a couple weeks now, but I am slowly reading and putting to use some of its exercises. I am not a person to do Yoga as a...
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2016 Mount Washington Hill Climb on my ElliptiGO
Sunday, I competed the Mount Washington Hill Climb along with two other ElliptiGO riders and about 600 cyclists. This was a huge challenge and I am happy that the event is now over. I drove my van up...
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1986 Cape Cod Endurance Triathlon
Here is a growing archive of anything related to the 1986 Cape Cod Endurance Triathlon. It was the fourth edition of six Ironman distance triathlons held on Cape Cod. Boston Marathon race director...
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Boston "Hub on Wheels" riding ElliptiGOs
Sunday, I rode the Boston Hub on Wheels cycling event. We started at Government Center, rode up up and back on Storrow Drive then went south before returning to Boston for a fun 40 mile ride. It was a...
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2016 Tri-State Seacoast Century on an ElliptiGO
For the fourth year in a row, I participated in the Tri-State Seacoast Century, but this year I changed things up. During the 2013, 2014, and 2015 versions of the event, my goal was to try to go sub 6...
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Frank Shorter: My Marathon:Reflections on a Gold Medal Life
Frank Shorter has always been one of my heroes in the running world. I watched him win the Olympic Marathon in Munich on our family's television and fretted along with the announcers when an impostor...
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The Shin Box Switch
I had never heard of the shin box until a couple of weeks ago, but I have been playing around with it for my hips multiple times a day since then. It is a pretty basic exercise, but there are tons of...
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The Worst Marathon Ever: RAT POISON AND BRANDY: THE 1904 ST. LOUIS OLYMPIC...
Here is a fun little video on the 1904 Olympic Marathon that is just too crazy to describe without making it into a board game.Poisoned and a nearly a dead man walking, Tom Hicks is being helped to the...
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Navigate your way home using these Vibrating Lechal Smart Navigation and...
I saw these vibrating insoles from Lechal and was immediately amused and intrigued. Now you no longer have to look at your watch to tell you wear to go as you let your insoles guide you instead. They...
View ArticleGreat vintage documentary on Bill Rodger's and the 1977 Boston Marathon
This is a great find, a 20 minute documentary on Bill Rodger's before, during, and after the 1977 Boston Marathon. There is video of Bill training and hanging out with his GBTC teammates, the ride to...
View ArticleGreat old video of the 1982 Bix 7 miler
This is an old 8mm film of a race I never ran, but of a time when I did. It is great to see Rob DeCastella, Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter and others in fine running form.
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