The Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run lottery is now open until midnight November 26th.
Cross your fingers and click here. You know you want to!
The actual lottery drawing takes place 9:00 AM on December 10th, at Placer High School in Auburn.
People seem to either love or hate, or love to hate, Christopher McDougall, the author of Born to Run and fierce advocate of minimalist running.
He recently wrote an article for New York Times magazine about an interesting exercise, called “100 ups,” that he believes will help your running.
In the article, McDougall recognizes the important fact that people can, and do run barefoot and still have terrible form.
Here’s the video. I’d be interested to hear back from anyone who tries the exercises.
Unless there is some egregious error in a post, I almost never revisit something I’ve written here.
Last week, I wrote Going Big, which was a lamentation of sorts on the state of the marathon.
The article was triggered by my reading a newspaper story about Chris Spangenberg’s attempt to set a world record for being the heaviest person to ever complete a marathon. This story sparked considerable, energetic reactions in a number of people.
What was most fascinating to me was how my post served as a sort of Rorschach ink blot for the readers. Many readers resonated with my concerns about the sport, while others saw it as an attack on a specific individual (i.e., Mr. Spangenberg) or slower runners.
In truth, the irritation and frustration that I was trying to express was with two specific issues: the press for not covering running in any meaningful way, and the “marathon training industry” that has sold the idea that everyone can and should run a marathon.
