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Mar 08, 2010
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Photos by Kristen Boness
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Mar 07, 2010
By Vickie Leff
Posted by: Joe Nuss in runner, Run, Gear on
Mar 05, 2010
The New Balance 760, designed for mild to moderate pronators, was launched in January 2010 and retails for $99.95.
Posted by: Joe Nuss in Triathlon, Events, endurance on
Mar 05, 2010
Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon has been ranked fifth on a list of Best Distance Races in the World, according to the March issue of Triathlete magazine. The Wilmington, NC race is one of two American races listed among the top 10, with the Ford Ironman World Championship in Kona, HI sitting at the top of the list.
“We are amazed and proud that after only two years our Beach2Battleship Triathlon has been ranked among the top in the World,” said Dick Jones, executive director, YMCA. “It’s a tribute to everyone involved in putting the event together – the Wilmington Family YMCA, the event committee, our 800 volunteers and of course, the athletes.”
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Mar 04, 2010
By Brandon McDearis
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Mar 03, 2010
GEAR REVIEW - Sugoi MidZero Tights & RS Bib Shorts By Curtis Staples
Posted by: Joe Nuss in runner, Run on
Mar 01, 2010
You Finished Your Marathon! Now What?
You’ve been running for years and have spent 16 weeks or more building up to this marathon and when you cross the finish line and the volunteer puts that medal around your neck, it will all be over. Or will it? What you do in the first few hours and days after a marathon can make or break your enjoyment of running in the near future. We all understand the consequences of not properly preparing for a marathon, but too often we underestimate the consequences of not properly recovering from a marathon. Here are a few key points in making the most of your post-race experience.
I spent a weekend in Colorado Springs this month with our event director, Thys (pronounced like “rice”—only faster). We were attending a USAT Race Director Symposium, and after a few too many hours in conference rooms we headed out for an afternoon run. We made our way over to an unofficial trail that runs up the Mt. Manitou Springs Incline—an old incline railway that has been turned into a trail that climbs 2,100 vertical feet in the distance of a mile.
The view from the bottom was daunting, but at least you could see the top (so we thought). We headed up and I quickly realized this was going to be not a run, but a hike—and a grueling one at that. At 8,000 feet the air felt so thin in my not-yet-acclimatized lungs that the pain of the effort felt like I had a piano on my chest. A distance that normally would take less than 8 minutes took 45 and left everything I had along the rocks and shattered railway.
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Feb 27, 2010
Trail Shoes: Would You Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
By D.C. Lucchesi
If you’ve been putting off running because you think it’s hard on your joints, you’ve got one less excuse. According to the September 2009 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch, the famed Framingham study conducted between 1993 and 2005 found no link between exercise and arthritis of the knee. In fact, the most active people in this study were shown to have the same risk of arthritis as the least active. A separate Australian study went one step further to prove that people who performed the most vigorous weight-bearing exercise had the thickest, healthiest knee cartilage. In 2008, another study, which compared runners to non-runners, found little evidence that exercise causes arthritis. So what are you waiting for? Lace up those sneakers!
