Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share When Speedendurance covered Matt Bogdanowicz’s World Record attempts, a lot of you were wondering who set the equivalent WR for a women? As you know, my good friend Matt is also a sub-Masters middle distance runner who set WR for 1 minute pull-ups (46), 1 hour pull-ups (522), 30 minute pull-ups (433 set in [...]
Share What is the STREND Fitness Challenge? Basically, it is when running a 5K alone just isn’t enough. This is a 6 event decathlon that combines strength and endurance. It’s the total repetitions of 5 exercises divided by run time in minutes (the 6th and final event), plus there is a strict recovery between events [...]
Share LaShawn Merritt and Jeremy Wariner continue to avoid each other as the match up to Berlin comes to a climax. This video is a textbook 400 meter sprinting at its finest. The HQ quality shows good form and rhythm from most of the athletes, including the winner LaShawn Merritt. Ever notice the 400 meter [...]
Share Reading the story of Kiwi’s Logan Campbell two weeks ago brought back memories of Leilani Rios in 1999-2000. I was living and working in California at the time, and she was big news everywhere. Leilani Rios was the Cal State Fullerton cross country runner who was kicked off the team for working as an [...]
Share I like to save money whenever I can, and spend it on other important things such as food, travel, and Championship entry fees. So when I came across this tip about Amazon, I couldn’t resist. I talked about the Amazon Kindle in a previous post, as it’s the best device to read several books [...]
Share It looks like the infamous Jeff “BALCO” Novitzky is at it again. There are more cases of athletic supplements are contaminated that can fail your next drug test. So buyer beware. Two products from American Cellular Labs (ACL), Tren Xtreme and Mass Xtreme, were pulled of the shelves from alleged contamination of 4-estra and [...]
Share Usain Bolt at the Aviva London Grand Prix Video How fast will Usain Bolt run? His past performances in Manchester, Toronto, Lausanne and Paris were all in less than ideal conditions for world records, notably, rain and headwind. It’s pretty scary to think a 9.79 and 19.59 were set in non-perfect conditions. And his [...]
Share With the upcoming meets in Lahti Finland (WMA) or Sydney Australia (WMG), some of you may be making trans-oceanic flights anywhere from 6 to 20 hours long. So here is a huge list to take with you. The 3 most important things are staying hydrated, good food, and sleep especially if you are traveling [...]
Share I’m in a bit of a rut. I am currently north of Rome where half my friends are AC Roma (or just Roma) and the other half are S.S. Lazio (or just Lazio) fans of the Italian Football (Soccer) league. Roma has gained a lot of popularity because in the past 3 years, as [...]
Share NIKE, Inc. introduced the new Nike+ SportBand, giving runners real-time performance feedback on their distance, pace, time and calories burned with just a glance at their wrist. Nike also redefined the online running experience by merging the successful site nikeplus.com and its close to 2 million members together with nikerunning.com. Nike+ SportBand The Nike+ [...]
Share Last week, Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, BC is the first Canadian university to be admitted to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). For the past 35 years, it competed under the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). As much as I would have preferred “Div I” status, it will compete under Division [...]
Share Usain Bolt in Paris Video How fast will Usain Bolt run? That’s the consensus on the Letsrun and Track and Field News message boards (and other message boards that I don’t bother checking). What is odd is no Americans were listed in the Start List. I thought they were a sprint powerhouse? His press [...]
Share Remember those BASF commercials a few years back? They would show all the synthetic goods that were produced by BASF? Their slogan goes like this: We don’t make a lot of products you buy, We don’t make a lot of products you buy BETTER. If you are an audiophile like me, you think immediately [...]
Share There was some Interesting commentary from Superman (a.k.a. Michael Johnson) on Telegraph.co.uk last week. Let’s take a closer look at his suggestions: My three-point plan would be to shorten the competitions and limit the events to only those that most people, in particular young people, are interested in. Focus on the pure competition between [...]
Share There’s an alarming trend of Coaches who do not like the conventional double leg squats with the bar behind your head. But for those who like to do the double-legged squats, it is recommended to do “front squats” with the bar on your front shoulders and collar bone, because if you fail at a [...]
Share The news of Dan Pfaff and Derek Evely leaving for the UK invoked some thoughts and discussion. The UK is doing something right. They are luring quality coaches from other countries with proper salaries and benefits into senior management positions. Unfortunately, it’s leaving a void in the Canadian coaching system, especially at the High [...]
Share Now I’m getting worried. When an eight year old become sick from the unpleasant after effects from energy drinks such as Red Bull, I have to ask one thing: Where are heck are the parents? Seriously, there’s a huge difference in Gatorade, or Tiger Gatorade Focus, and Red Bull or Monster drinks. Honestly, until [...]
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