Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share My favourite pictures of 2009 came from the IAAF Super Grand Prix Athletissima meeting on July 7, 2009 at the Olympic stadium in Lausanne. No, it wasn’t the photo of Usain Bolt in the pouring rain. In the picture below, Angela Morosanu, whose sponsor is Adidas, falls during the women’s hurdles 400 meters. This [...]
Share This movie has nothing to do with Track & Field or the 400 meters, but I like the title of the movie. Being bilingual trilingual in English, French and Italian makes me appreciate foreign films. I love the English Title for the French Film Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) or The 400 Blows. Of [...]
Share With the indoor season around the corner, I want to remind those athletes in the NCAA that caffeine is still on the list of controlled substances. The NCAA maximum acceptable level is 15 mcg/mL (micrograms per millilitre) in the urine. Now unless you have a Starbucks Venti sized drip coffee with an extra shot [...]
Share Nike is introducing three new styles of athletic training shoes early in 2010: the Nike Lunar Kayoss, the Nike Trainer 1 Low and the Nike SC2010. Pictured on the left is the Nike SC2010. Each style is designed to provide today’s athletes with a lightweight, durable, and versatile option to meet the demands of [...]
Share Nike is introducing three new styles of athletic training shoes early in 2010: the Nike Lunar Kayoss, the Nike Trainer 1 Low and the Nike SC2010. Pictured on the left is the Nike Trainer 1 Low. Each style is designed to provide today’s athletes with a lightweight, durable, and versatile option to meet the [...]
Share Nike is introducing three new styles of athletic training shoes early in 2010: the Nike Lunar Kayoss, the Nike Trainer 1 Low and the Nike SC2010. Pictured on the left is the Nike Lunar Kayoss. Each style is designed to provide today’s athletes with a lightweight, durable, and versatile option to meet the demands [...]
Share The entire team at SpeedEndurance.com got together with Santa Claus for the annual 2009 Christmas photo. If the team got any bigger, we would have to downsize :o) At this time, I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holidays. Here are my goals for 2010 for SpeedEndurance: With proper coaching and [...]
Share Last week’s article on PRP and ACI sparked and irritated some readers. Mostly Tiger fans, of course. Today’s mailbag contained an email asking me, “Are you claiming Tiger Woods is on steroids?”. Let’s see… Along with physical characteristics such as acne, facial hair and acromegaly, steroid users usually show signs of aggressiveness, huge egos [...]
Share Remember when Justin Gatlin was a household name? Why not? He won the 100 meter gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games when Asafa Powell was considered the favourite. This NIKE commercial was shot in the spring of 2006 prior to the announcement of his eight-year ban from track and field. That didn’t stop [...]
Share A big thank you to Ken Stone of MastersTrack.com for pointing this out to me. I love it when Science & Technology meets Track & Field. The High Jump Resource Center belongs to Todd Acheson, a two-time NCAA DIV II All-American in the High Jump. I discussed Baseball’s circular path when rounding the bases, [...]
Share With all the news and hype aimed towards Tiger Woods, we discovered he has tried Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) because the Canadian doctor that administered it was caught distributing Actovegin, Actovegin is on the World Anti-Doping Agency list of banned substances, and made from bovine blood cells. Now, there is NO PROOF Tiger obtained [...]
Share Linford Christie is the only British man to win a gold medal in the 100 meters at all four major competitions: the Olympic Games (1992), Worlds (1993), Commonwealth (1990, 94), and European championships (1986, 90, 94) Here’s a poor quality video digitized from analog tapes. He does a variety of single leg and double [...]
Share Nike and Kobe Bryant today announced the debut of the Nike Zoom Kobe V, the brand’s lowest-profile and lightest basketball shoe to date. Bryant challenged Nike to make his signature shoe even lighter and lower than the Nike Zoom Kobe IV he debuted during his 2008-2009 championship season. Nike responded with the Nike Zoom [...]
Share This list is sorted from lightest to heaviest. 1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams All prices listed are the MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price). Click on the link or image for the latest prices. ASICS Japan Lite-Ning – Mens – Blue/White/Lightning Weight: 4.5 oz. Description: The Japan Lite-Ning is ASICS‘ lightest track spike designed for [...]
Share Everyone is going light these days. Take a look around you, and you’ll understand why. When you’re watching your calories, you want every calorie to count. For example, Gatorade G2 is 25 calories per 8 ounce serving (~250 ml) which is about half the calories compared to the regular Gatorade. With the popularity of [...]
Share It’s common to see athletes become coaches once they retire (i.e. Jon Drummond, Leroy Burrell, and Jimson Lee, just to name a few) but we don’t see current athletes Blog about their “secrets”. Sure, we’ve seen the IAAF diaries of elite athletes, but it’s mostly about what their dog had for breakfast and complaining [...]
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