Success in Track & Field ... and Life
Share The purpose of this article is to remind you the rules have changed on how you conduct yourself outside the track. When I was competing for McGill University from 1982-86, our initial conduct we had to follow was to behave ourselves when travelling on school “business”. That meant shirt and tie on airplanes, and [...]
Share Last fall, I started a series on erogenic aids after being a guest on ESPN The Ticket radio show. The big question is how do you define “cheating” vs. “performance enhancement”? I define “performance enhancement” if it’s BOTH safe and legal. If it’s illegal, then it’s called “cheating”. If it’s not safe, well, what [...]
Share If you are a reader of SpeedEndurance, you don’t need a reminder of who Lee Evans is. On the Track side, he is a 2-time Gold medalist from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics in the 400 meters and 4×400 meter relay. He was the first man to break the 44 second barrier, along with [...]
Share 2011 has been a strange year starting with massive Flooding worldwide and then the Occupy <insert keyword here> movements. 2011 is also a very bad year in terms of Italy’s economics. We are in the news everyday, and since I live in Rome, I get so many emails from friends asking how things are [...]
Share I was going to leave the second half of the title off, and simply call it, “The Secret to your PR is only 6 inches”. But that would cause a lot of curious people, especially boys and men, to click on the link expecting adult content or some LaShawn Merritt joke. And heaven forbid, [...]
Share Here is a great article from Läufer des Jahrhunderts – Die atemberaubende Karriere des Armin Hary – 14) 1960 – Hary, strahlende Nummer 1 – GIPFELTÄNZE II. It’s in German, so I translated the article with Google translate (as bad as it may be sometimes) and put the English version side-by-side. You can download [...]
Share Daegu 2011 is now a distant memory, but there was one interesting souvenir, and that is the IAAF Stats Handbook for Daegu 2011. It’s a huge download, 186 pages and 8Mb in size, and you can download it from the Daegu 2011 IAAF Website. What was interesting was the section on performance trends. As [...]
Share Men have an unfair advantage over women because of their strength and size. That’s why the events are separated by gender, and Para-Olympians have their own games. Because of this, we have the women’s throwing events using lighter implements. We have the women’s hurdles at lower heights than men and with shorter spacing in [...]
Share Below is the audio and video from my radio appearance on ESPN (The Ticket) 1280AM yesterday. Many thanks to Ryan Foran of LivingtheRun.com for having me on the show Wednesday. The co-host is decathlete Paul Terek, a 2004 Olympian and on the USA World Championship team in ’03, ’05, ’07. Maybe I should title [...]
Share This is not an April fools joke… Just like the 1908 Olympic Marathon was extended to present day 26 miles, 385 yards (or 42.195m), running counter clockwise started in the 6th century BC and has stayed that way ever since. That is, until the 2011 Brussels Diamond League. Take a look at the YouTube [...]
Share Here are the top 5 controversies from the 2011 Daegu World Championships: Usain Bolt’s False Start in the 100m Dayron Robles 110m Hurdles DQ Oscar Pistorius entry in the open 400 meters Caster Semenya 800m losing on purpose USA 4x100m relay collision with UK All 5 of these topics have been covered in various [...]
Share One of the quirks about Championship meets is when you have 12 runners enter a short sprint, like the 100 meters. Then only 8 runners check in the marshaling area an hour before this “semi-final” race. MOST meet directors cancel the semi-final race and make it a straight final. This is AFTER you have [...]
Share If you’ve followed this Blog for a while, you’ll notice a subliminal message behind the articles. Since I turned 48 years old today, I’m probably old enough to be your father for half my readers (based on the Internet stats and demographics) Behind all the training and nutrition tips, and all the post race [...]
Share Oscar Pistorius should be allowed to run. It’s an interesting human rights story, and thus you can’t deny his rights if he makes the IAAF “A” Qualifying standard. Rules are rules. But let it be known, he does has some disadvantages, and a lot of advantages. There comes an optimal point where one will [...]
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New Innovations in Track and Field
Share If we are going to succeed in having Track and Field as the number one sport again, we have to change a few things. First, we have to make it more TV and Internet friendly. I agree on making the meets 2 hours long, at least for TV, but the meet can be 3 [...]