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A man is running in the park.

Unlocking Ideas

Published by Trotzendorff

Have you ever had an idea while you were run­ning? If so, you’re not alone. Like tak­ing a show­er or going for a walk, run­ning is one of those activ­i­ties that stim­u­late cre­ativ­i­ty. «The hours we spend on our feet have a way of unlock­ing ideas that would oth­er­wise be out of reach,» so it says in a text about the «Track­smith Fel­low­ship». The inde­pen­dent run­ning brand from New Eng­land has designed this pro­gram to sup­port run­ners with cre­ative ambi­tions. But why?

A woman is running in a park.

Why exercise plays a crucial role in Covid recovery

Published by Trotzendorff

For many peo­ple the Coro­na pan­dem­ic is hit­ting clos­er to home. In the last weeks I have come across a lot of Insta­gram posts by run­ners who have con­tract­ed with the virus or who are instruct­ed to quar­an­tine them­selves. And while most peo­ple who catch the dis­ease expe­ri­ence mild symp­toms, many report feel­ing short of breath and slug­gish for weeks after­ward. But you all know what run­ners are like: they want to return to track or trail, and that soon­er rather than lat­er. I have found sev­er­al arti­cles pro­vid­ing tipps for your come­back after infec­tion. First, the good news: the two go togeth­er, «exer­cise plays a cru­cial role in recov­ery,» as Manuela Callari writes in a piece for The Guardian: «Sleep and rest help your immune sys­tem to fight the dis­ease but it is crit­i­cal to start mov­ing again to avoid fur­ther weak­en­ing of your body about sev­en days after the major symp­toms have disappeared.»

Woman eating french fries.

The Palatability Theory

Published by Trotzendorff

There are clear and unan­i­mous fig­ures that obe­si­ty has increased over time, espe­cial­ly in rich nations like the Unit­ed States. On aver­age peo­ple today weigh more and have high­er body fat per­cent­ages than their recent ances­tors at sim­i­lar ages. But why is that the case? One wide­spread assump­tion is the palata­bil­i­ty the­o­ry. It posits that the pri­ma­ry cause is an increase in reward sig­nals in the mod­ern envi­ron­ment from processed food, medi­at­ed by the moti­va­tion sys­tem in the brain, caus­ing us to overeat.

A Momumental Journey

Published by Trotzendorff

To pro­tect your per­son­al data, your con­nec­tion to YouTube has been blocked.Click on Load video to unblock YouTube.By load­ing the video you accept the pri­va­cy pol­i­cy of YouTube.More infor­ma­tion about YouTube’s pri­va­cy pol­i­cy can be found here Google — Pri­va­cy & Terms. Do not block YouTube videos in the future any­more. Load video The «Lon Las Cym­ru ultra» is a 250 mile non-stop race from Holy­head to Cardiff Bay down the cen­tre of Wales cross­ing sev­er­al moun­tain ranges. It‘s pos­si­bly the longest non-stop road ultra in the UK. This film is the sto­ry about Gor­don Hugh­es and Vic Owens as they attempt to run this race in under 88 hours in Octo­ber 2021. It is, as one of the com­ments said, a momu­men­tal jour­ney by some mon­u­men­tal people.

Nurmi, right, and Joie Ray, left, with U.S. President Calvin Coolidge during Nurmi's 1925 U.S. tour.

Records as Toys

Published by Trotzendorff

It’s no secret that I have a crush on Fin­land and there­fore devour every arti­cle I can find about this coun­try. When, in addi­tion, jour­nal­ists write about Fin­land and run­ning, I am hooked. So let me rec­om­mend a piece writ­ten by Liam Boy­lan-Pett for the Løpe Mag­a­zine about an inim­itable run­ner from the north, Paa­vo Nur­mi, and his U.S. tour in 1924 and 1925. Boy­lan-Pett recon­structs his jour­ney and all the races he ran. Like this one in the Madi­son Square Gar­den in New York.