Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast. You start with easy, because if that’s all you get, that’s not so bad.Caballo Blanco
Posts Tagged → running
Rebootin’
Last couple of years I had trouble understanding the summer-training-people. The ones that huddle on the buses and in their cars during winter only to get panicked when spring is upon them and they throw themselves out of the door in order to hit “beach 2013″. I never really understood. Continue reading
From the Twitter Feed; Midwinter
All the little burdies have gone south. Except this one. And it’s taking a 6 months dump, brace yourselves! Continue reading
Review: Tread Lightly: Form, Footwear, and the Quest for Injury-Free Running
Tread Lightly: Form, Footwear, and the Quest for Injury-Free Running by Bill Katovsky
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I haven’t read very many running books. In fact, I’ve only read three that I can remember, one being Christopher MacDougal’s legendary “Born to Run”, and Jason Robillard’s excellent “The Barefoot Running Book”. Continue reading
From the Twitter Feed: You Really Should Be There
These roundups are getting longer and longer, you really should be on Twitter if you find the at all interesting. But nevertheless, here’s some twitterroos, for your amusement:
- Medical Daily: Skin Cancer Drug Rapidly Reverses Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120210/9085/alzheimer%E2%80%99s-drug-bexarotene-mice-dementia-apolipoprotein.htm
- The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: It’s Evolution, Stupid | Threat Level |http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/peter-sunde/
- (SE) Anna Troberg: Bitschslappad av verkligheten | http://bit.ly/A3PqfI
- “We, the Web kids” by Piotr Czerski: http://pastebin.com/0xXV8k7k
- Go sit by a lake. http://xkcd.com/1024/
- Neil deGrasse Tyson. We are starstuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D05ej8u-gU
- Natural Running, from Dr Mark. Good stuff! http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2012/03/06/video-the-principles-natural-running/
- “E-mails ‘hurt IQ more than pot’” http://cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/index.html
- ANALYSIS: When a Congressman Becomes a Lobbyist, He Gets a 1,452% Raise (on Average) http://shar.es/p5HJx
- Sveriges knarkpolitik sämst, inte bäst http://www.metro.se/kolumner/sveriges-knarkpolitik-samst-inte-bast/EVHlcu!MLBbFvbH4TPKk/
@ScottJurek remembers his friend Micah True (Born to Run’s Caballo Blanco): http://ow.ly/a3MnD- Searching for Caballo Blanco: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/running/trail-running/On-The-Trail-Of-The-White-Horse.html
- To grasp a billion stars http://shar.es/r19JP
- Badasses in the History of Science: Archimedes: http://youtu.be/UzzaSWyIhHM
- Climate Change with Bill Maher.avi: http://youtu.be/2f6Z0_HMLo8
- (SE) Skogen vi ärvde i DN http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/sveriges-nya-miljonprogram
- Mysterious barrier blocks access to delicious human child – Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/05/03/mysterious-barrier-blocks-acce.html
- Those Revolting Europeans http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/opinion/krugman-those-revolting-europeans.html?smid=tw-share
Enjoy!
From the Twitter Feed
Random birdsong, disturbing your morning sleep:
- Very good piece about how we treat ourselves. Self-help of the month! “You Are Unique, Not Special”: http://t.co/7Uc6NPy
- From Jason Robbilard: “Barefoot and Natural Running Form: How Do I Know If I’m Doing It Right?”: http://t.co/t00aFhH
- An old classic: “Hell’s Angel: Mother Theresa”, by Christopher Hitchens: http://ow.ly/5RxAl
- Brilliant! “Debunking Kalams Cosmological Argument”: http://ow.ly/5QccN
- From Lifehacker.com: “Think before you speak”: http://ow.ly/5DVoV
- Robbilard again: “Run for Fun: A Running Plan for the Rest of Us”: http://t.co/S6GBtTZ
- More self-help: “Embrace change”: http://ow.ly/5qzx5
Enjoy!