All posts tagged: Marathon

Quick Links — Week 14

«Run­ning The World’s Slip­peri­est MARATHON On PURE ICE!» — Göran Win­blad, YouTube «Updat­ed Start Lists Announced for 126th Boston Marathon, B.A.A. 5K, and B.A.A. Invi­ta­tion­al Mile» — Boston Ath­let­ic Asso­ci­a­tion «Stay­ing hydrat­ed may reduce the risk of heart fail­ure» — Rachael Ret­tner, Live Sci­ence «Why Tom Evans is look­ing for­ward to a chal­lenge in the Himalayas» — Shail Desai, Red Bull Quick Links are usu­al­ly added once a week to this blog and cov­er every top­ic possible.

Quick Links — Week 13

«Trail Prep: Train­ing My Body and Trick­ing My Brain» — Anelia Slavoff, The Trek «When It’s a Hon­or to be Dead F*cking Last» — Kath­leen Evers, Trail Sis­ters «A First Marathon Taught Him More Than How to Run a Race» — Car­lo Rotel­la, The Wash­ing­ton Post «2021 Mount Marathon Women’s Race! Alas­ka Moun­tain Run­ning» — Run Steep Get High, YouTube «The future of nutri­tion advice» — Lisa Dray­er, CNN «‹Fly­ing Finn› Hannes Kolehmainen: Pio­neer of long dis­tance at Olympics» — She­mal Fer­nan­do, Sun­day Observ­er «End­less Loops and Shat­tered Records: ‹This Is Pure Ultra­run­ning›» — The New York Times «How easy should your easy runs be?» — Lau­ra Nor­ris Run­ning Quick Links are usu­al­ly added once a week to this blog and cov­er every top­ic possible.

Quick Links — Week 12

«Kil­ian Jornet’s Next Quest: Co-Found­ing the New Brand NNor­mal» — Sam Ander­son, iRun­Far «Build­ing a run­ning media com­pa­ny from the ground up — Dylan Bow­man» — The Gin­ger Run­ner, YouToube «Alone Togeth­er — Mar­cos Fer­ro Runs Across the Peru­vian Andes» — Salomon TV, YouTube «We put Lululemon’s first-ever run­ning shoe to the test — here’s how it held up» — Maris­sa Miller, CNN «Inside the UTMB World Series and the ‹Iron­man­i­sa­tion› of trail run­ning» — Michael Long, Sport­sPro «A Trail Runner’s Guide to Car­ing for the Trails» — Meghan Hicks and Bry­on Pow­ell, iRun­Far «Run­ning the UK’s hard­est 100 mile race | Arc of Attri­tion 2022» — Ben Parkes, YouTube «Jas­min Paris talks about the Barkley Marathons» — Rick Pear­son, Run­ner’s World «Woman Returns To Run Boston Marathon 50 Years After Run­ning In The First Offi­cial Women’s Field» — CBS Boston, YouTube «Jas­min Paris: The elite long-dis­tance run­ner who sets records while breast­feed­ing» — Matt Dick­in­son, The Times «What All Run­ners Can Learn from Dathan Ritzenhein’s Coach­ing» — Mol­ly Han­son, Out­side Mag­a­zine «Mol­ly Sei­del: How dis­tance run­ner overcame …

Eliud Kipchoge running the 2018 London Marathon.

«I have zero understanding how a human being can move that quick, that long»

Eli­ud Kip­choge recent­ly won the Tokyo Marathon in 2:02:40, not much slow­er than his cur­rent world record for the fastest marathon ever, set dur­ing the Berlin Marathon in 2018 with a time of 2:01:39. But what does that time mean? Mark Lewis, who describes him­self as an aver­age run­ner who is «not too bad» at any dis­tance, thought about this ques­tion a lit­tle longer. «It’s a 2 minute 54 per km pace for 42 km; stu­pid­ly quick,» he says. But: «I can’t com­pre­hend what he’s doing, not properly.»