Running as a sport also rebounded from its low of the 1980s. By the ’90s, we had a second running boom, far bigger than the first but different. This reboom valued participation over speed, which wasn’t a bad choice. If I had to choose between masses of Americans running slowly and a few running fast, … Read more
Real, Imagined …or Vitalized? The dream paid a visit again last night. It’s the second time in the past month. Why it’s suddenly recurring on a regular basis, I don’t know. There were years where it stayed away, safely salted in the repository of lost dreams, unrealized daydreams, and banished nightmares. It’s a dream of … Read more
SPECIAL BOOK BONUS Did the Introduction of Money Into an Amateur Sport Ruin It, or Were We Romanticizing the Starving, Penniless Runner? The first four installments of Don’s book appeared in our last four issues. OVEMBER 1979 MONEY In the spring of 1976, while I was still, by profession, a sixth-grade teacher, I enjoyed a … Read more
class member a humorous award to commemorate something about what that particular runner did during the semester. We told our war stories about our struggles and our victories. Some sported gigantic blisters, and of course we all were stiff and A Ben, center, with some of the Purdue runners before the start of the marathon. … Read more
Green, H.J., M. Ball-Burnett, S. Symon, S. Grant, and G. Jamieson. 1995. Short-term training, muscle glycogen, and cycle endurance. Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology 20(3): 315-324. Hermansen, L., E. Hultman, and B. Saltin. 1967. Muscle glycogen during prolonged severe exercise. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 71:129-139. Ivy, J.L. 1991. Muscle glycogen synthesis before and after exercise. Sports … Read more
Show Me the Bagels Glycogen As a Metabolic Fuel for Runners. he many proponents of diets like Atkins and South Beach would have the public believe that carbohydrate is some kind of poison. Don’t listen to them. Carbohydrate is a marathoner’s best friend. Carbohydrate is stored in our skeletal muscles and liver as glycogen and … Read more
Second, she brought people out of the woodwork. Mostly they were good people, concerned not to be annoying, resolved to assist if something went wrong, and eager to share in the adventure themselves, to wonder, “Could I do this?” Virtually all of them came away saying, “No.” “This is the highlight of all the running … Read more
Sleepless in Tucson Or the Multitasking of the Very-Long-Distance Runner. t 6:00 a.m. on March 25, a few miles north of Tucson, Arizona, the full moon slipped behind Picacho Peak. At the same time, the sun shimmered up over the Santa Catalina Mountains. Doves and quail tustled in the chaparral. Mexican poppies, fairy dusters, and … Read more
Doug Stanny <4 Tim Bomba taking a break from work in his sound studio. Bomba was once an unhappy runner, then he became a swimmer, and now he is a triathlete— and a happy one at that. Not all that long ago, such a notion was unfathomable to him. “The biggest enemy we all have … Read more
It was the movie that did it, Bomba insists, alluding to the quirky little picture that juggles a hodgepodge of ideas such as quantum physics, spirituality, and mysticism. Whether his metamorphosis from aquaphobic to aquaholic can indeed be attributed to something as mundane as a motion picture is perhaps open to debate. Bomba is convinced, … Read more
Sometimes the War of the Worlds Begins and Ends on a Lonely Trail on Earth. ars Rover One, come in, this is Mission Control. We have a problem, over.” “Mission Control, this is First Officer Weendog. What can we do for you, over?” “Our sensors indicate you are not alone out there. Can you confirm … Read more
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