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With the Shape Up RI half-marathon only three days away, I’ve apparently moved into “taper” mode…although I’m not exactly sure what that means! I believe it means that I should decrease the distance of my training runs and start resting up muscles for the race, but can I still run at all? I don’t even [...]
Posts Tagged ‘research’
April 29th, 2010
How do you taper for a race?
Posted in General, links 
Tags: barefoot, Blogs I Follow, born to run, links, research, taper 
8 Comments »April 15th, 2010
Why we run
Last week I finished reading Why We Run by Bernd Heinrich and just wanted to share a couple of thoughts on the book. At first my reaction to the book was that there was way too much Biology-speak and I’ll admit, there were parts where I started to lose focus (lots of talk about moths, [...]
Posted in links, media Tags: Blogs I Follow, books, links, question, research, ultra-marathon 8 Comments »March 16th, 2010
Is marathon training actually BAD for your heart?
Now that my PT tendon seems to have healed itself (for now at least!) and the first race of the season is in the books, it’s time to get back to my regular routine. In terms of bloggin, this means listing the interesting websites I’ve found over the past week or so, starting with a [...]
Posted in links Tags: barefoot, Blogs I Follow, born to run, injury, interview, links, pt tendon, research, runkeeper, runningAHEAD 1 Comment »March 4th, 2010
Stretching before a run could make you less efficient
While sitting around, nursing my PT tendon injury, I wanted to share some links I’ve come across this week that piqued my interest. The first is an article from Runner’s World, which tries to make the case that static-stretching before running could actually make you less efficient than if you simply sat and relaxed for [...]
February 3rd, 2010
Random running thoughts
Just wanted to share a few running-related things I’ve been thinking about or have found on the web as of late: Compliments of our friends over at Running is Funny, here’s an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that explains how the benefits of running are continually compounded the more and more you run: …for [...]
Posted in links, news, status Tags: barefoot, Blogs I Follow, family, links, races, research, ultra-marathon, update 2 Comments »January 27th, 2010
Harvard’s “Barefoot Professor” publishes studies on barefoot running
It must have come out today, because all of a sudden I’m seeing tons of links to a study published by professor Dan Lieberman (Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology) from Harvard about the benefits of barefoot running: CNBC Boston.com: Barefoot runners avoid impacts (impacts?) Nature.com: Barefoot running strikes back Popular Science Yahoo! News Harvard Gazette: [...]
January 19th, 2010
How much do running shoes really protect you?
I just came across Barefoot Ken Bob’s latest post on RunningBarefoot.org, which references a ScientificAmerican.com article, Running Shoes Jog Joints, that mentions that while running shoes protect the feet (minor scrapes, cuts, etc.,) they don’t protect the ankle, hips and knees. From the article: New research finds that running shoes actually increase the pressure on [...]
