Sacramento Running News

David Stipp, writing at Slate.com, makes a compelling argument that “every sport other than long-distance running is fundamentally absurd.”

I’ve known that for a while, but why does Stipp think this?

In his article All Men Can’t Jump, he argues that despite the fact “we crowd into arenas and stadiums to marvel at our pathetic physical abilities as if they were something special,” among the animals, man is pretty pathetic at everything except long-distance running. (more…)

Run faster by running less?

Alert reader, John B. (not me) wrote to tell me about his experience trying the training protocol I had written about in the original post, High Intensity Training.

John writes:

Two blocks at first, two to three times a week? Then ramp up to three.

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