I’m personally not a big fan of listening to music while running — except on the treadmill. But I know that a lot of people find running without music as crazy as running without shoes… wait, I do that too. Anyway… Nike just launched a new version of their iPhone/iPod Nike + GPS Touch app. Thought you might want to know about it. You can download it here (iTunes link).
Though my Nike Free do support the little in-shoe foot pod thing, I have not tried it. However, I’ve read and had runners tell me that it’s pretty good. The interface design is pretty stellar and it’s socially connected so you can share your workouts with people on Facebook.
It apparently also offers in-run motivational messages from athletes to help keep you going....
Green fluorescence in Nubian skeletons indicated tetracycline-labeled bone, the first clue that the ancients were producing the antibiotic. (Credit: Emory)
Now this is a treatment I would like to try
Check out this article on Futurity. It seems that ancient Nubians used Tetracycline-infused beer in an attempt to cure sickness in people.
…researchers later tied the source of the antibiotic to the Nubian beer. The grain used to make the fermented gruel contained the soil bacteria streptomyces, which produces tetracycline.
I always thought that antibiotic use started back in...
A couple of weeks ago I went to Boston for a Road Runners Club of America coaching certification seminar. This is the first of a series of posts about my experiences. I wrote the posts as I was going through the classes, but I haven’t had time until now to post them.
Oh my God does my brain hurt
If I hear “splits” one more time, think that’s what’s going to happen to my head. I just wrapped up a weekend of RRCA coach training in Boston. 16 hours over two days of lecture and group sessions on the RRCA methodology of distance running.
I’ve been wanting to take the training certification for about a year now, but they rarely do them on the East Coast so I had to wait and wait. When registration opened for this session...
Had to steal these pix off MarathonFoto's site. They screwed up my order for proper digital images three times.
Ran my second Falmouth Road Race last Sunday. What a great event. It’s so amazingly well organized and the people are fantastic. If you haven’t done it, but live close by you should definitely try and get in.
Good, but not great results
I PRed by 00:01:39 over last year with a finishing time of 00:47:47 @ 6:49 pace. That was the good news. The bad news is that I was hoping for something faster. Sadly, I simply couldn’t tap it down to where I wanted. My...
I was reading one of the health/fitness blog that I follow and came across this study on the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s website.
I’m not good at judging the structure of studies like this, but I read through this one and — from a non-researcher point of view — it seems well done. The aim was to study the effects an exercise routine had on the musculoskeletal discomfort and mental/physical fatigue of airline call center employees.
The results showed that appropriately designed and supervised exercise programs may be more efficient than rest breaks in decreasing discomfort and fatigue levels in call-center operators.
Musculoskeletal discomfort decreased in both groups, and in the experimental group significant differences in the level of mental fatigue, especially in questions related to memory were found.
Two thoughts came to mind upon reading this
People move around and they feel better and smarter? Duh?!
I found this completely fascinating. Biologists have demonstrated a connection between MS and gut bacteria.
“As we live cleaner, we’re not just changing our exposure to infectious agents, but we’re changing our relationship with the entire microbial world, both around and inside us, and we may be altering the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory bacteria,” leading to diseases like MS, Mazmanian says.
Makes me wonder about the people who test positive for Lyme, but do not have symptoms.
Watched an awesome and inspiring documentary last night, Runners High. It’s a feature-length film about the Students Run Oakland program. SRO takes kids from under-served public schools in Oakland and works with them to run the LA Marathon.
When teenagers from one of the nation’s toughest neighborhoods in Oakland, California sign up to train for a marathon, they begin the journey of a lifetime. Runners High is...
What a really cool place. I’m becoming increasingly sold that the Pacific Northwest is the place for me. Within the span of 12 hours I got to do two of my favorite things — sailing and trail running.
The sailing
The sailing was a sunset touristy outing on an old 70′ ocean racer. The boat can cruise with 32 people and anyone can pay $40 and go out, but because it’s really early in the season for tourist sails there were only 12 on my ride. Because of the size of the vessel this made it almost a private cruise. Most of the other passengers sat safely aft in the cockpit, but I grew up doing a lot of sailing and felt more than comfortable up on deck near...
