If You Understand the Scientific Reasons Behind The Wall, You Should Be Able to Avoid It. by Sara Latta This article originally appeared in the September/October 2003 issue of Marathon & Beyond “It felt like an elephant had jumped out of a tree onto my shoulders and was making me carry it the rest of the … Read more
BY DAVID C. NIEMAN, DrPH, FACSM This article originally appeared in Marathon and Beyond, Sept/Oct 2012 Edition. The 100-mile Western States Endurance Run (WSER) is an arduous mountain race in California reserved for the top tier of ultramarathon athletes. The trail racecourse starts at Squaw Valley, ascends 2,500 feet to Emigrant Pass (8,800 feet, the … Read more
Just What Does Running a Marathon Do to Your Body? by Jake Emmett, Ph.D. Running a marathon has been viewed, and still is by many, as too extreme to be healthy. Certainly, the physical stress of running a marathon played some role in not holding a women’s Olympic marathon race until 1984. On the flip … Read more
by Eileen P. Duggan The 1904 St. Louis Olympics Were Scabbed onto the World’s Fair, a Recipe for Disaster That Only the Hot August Marathon Could Top. Modern-day marathon runners are fond of recounting their tribulations on Boston’s Heartbreak Hill. But imagine the hardships endured by the runners in the 1904 Olympic Marathon as they … Read more
Running history often notes Roberta Gibb and Kathrine Switzer as among the first American women to run a marathon. However, seven years before Gibb hid in the bushes and snuck into the Boston Marathon in 1966 and eight years before Switzer ran Boston as K.V. Switzer in 1967, Arlene Pieper had finished the Pikes Peak Marathon in … Read more
Some runners prefer to return to the basics of human locomotion. by Zoie Clift This article originally appeared in the March/April 2007 issue of Marathon & Beyond. The human foot is a work of art and a masterpiece of engineering. Leonardo Da Vinci Though it could have happened, running barefoot did not disappear with the … Read more
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