I think its fine to compare yourself to others as long as you're comparing yourself to the right people. As far as average speed goes, that's a different story. How far are we running today, 5k or 30k? What's the goal, endurance or tempo or speed? Are we racing? Hills? My average speed is anywhere b...

Carrie lost her **** with me a while back when she found out I'd been running all over New York City and Tokyo with no ID whatsoever. Something about being buried in the Japanese equivalent of a potters field. Anyway, I'm ordering a new Road ID. I think I left my old one attached to an old pair of s...

But we like Clara Hughes, she is inspirational and she is Canadian. That is the difference. I tend to agree. We loved Silken Laumann, too. And Ben Johnson for 9.79 seconds. Love to hear an explanation of the silent acceptance of the silent sanction. Odd passive acceptance. So what we need is a hier...

Well legally the difference is intent. So? I understand the legal difference. I understand the difference between murder and manslaughter. I don't know what that has to do with doping - particularly if you believe (which I do) that the athlete is responsible for everything that goes into their body...

Jwolf wrote:
To the naysayers that will say that no good comes out of outing cheaters... What's the alternative?

Maybe a better alternative is to say its not necessary or desirable to prevent and detect every possible instance of cheating at every race.

The most recent photo on twitter.

In this case it clearly wasn't a witch-hunt. To the naysayers that will say that no good comes out of outing cheaters... What's the alternative? http://www.slowtwitch.com/News/Ironman_Suspends_Athlete_5326.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I don't think anyone has said that no goo...

http://globalnews.ca/news/2202615/snowf ... e-3-route/

And from twitter, overnight in Jasper

And a lot of life is about counteracting our bodies responses when its not convenient for our lives. My body is telling me this morning that I need to get some more sleep and I'm responding with coffee, not sleep. Later on I may take a headache pill instead of going home to bed. Exactly. And athlet...

I love this quote - always thought it odd that we'd try suppress the body's natural response... Editor in Chief of The Physician and Sports Medicine Journal (Dr. Nick DiNubile) once posed this question: “Seriously, do you honestly believe that your body’s natural inflammatory response is a mistake?...

I love this quote - always thought it odd that we'd try suppress the body's natural response... Editor in Chief of The Physician and Sports Medicine Journal (Dr. Nick DiNubile) once posed this question: “Seriously, do you honestly believe that your body’s natural inflammatory response is a mistake?...

Part of my running comeback is to be more defiant. Today it was "f*** you, thick cloud of smoke hanging over Calgary". I ended up with a decent 4-5k run, first time I've run two days in a row in forever. Plus I inadvertently drew a dick, so I've got that going for me.

chunkymonkeymelonhed wrote:

ian wrote: Today was a step-ladder (10 hard, 10 easy, 20 hard, 20 easy, out to 100 and back)

I do like this workout. I'm going to steal it.

What are the units? Metres? Minutes?

(Its Ian's workout so 'metres' is not crazy)

Here you go Mike... Already completely "investigated" by someone with one hell of a lot of time on their hands. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s257/sh/f2807f22-45db-4db7-b656-0b3d4c04f70a/70ec36dda244f9a3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Its too late for pitchforks. Straight...

You start scouring her social media postings, I'll get the pitchforks.

ETA: as an aside, when I read this I got "Ironman Canada" and "Challenge Penticton" mixed up in my head and wondered why she was disqualified five days before the race.

I thought I was using the most recent app (seeing as I got my new phone YESTERDAY) but apparently I wasn't. App is reinstalled and now I have a foot.

When I'm setting out on a workout, how do I set the kind of workout before I start? In my app it defaults to "run", but most of my workouts are either a walk (I walk at least an hour a night with the dog) or a bike ride. I assume you have the most recent version of the Strava iPhone app--...

I have a Strava question. I use the iPhone app. When I'm setting out on a workout, how do I set the kind of workout before I start? In my app it defaults to "run", but most of my workouts are either a walk (I walk at least an hour a night with the dog) or a bike ride. I end up having to go...

let me just say this - the Strava flyby feature is perhaps the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Those of you I'm Facebook friends with - I just posted a video of a flyby from Sunday night when I got into an inadvertent race with a guy who turned out to be on Strava as well. https://www.facebook.co...

The BOB I had had a fixed front wheel and (once I got it tracking straight) I never used it in anything but the fixed position. Chariot I think they killed the Running Room one because it was the only one in their product line that could only be used for running, they focused exclusively on multi-pu...

Congratulations on the new addition! We had Running Room Chariot for nearly 10 years, bought it used in 2005 and finally got rid of it this year. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-baby-stroller-carrier-car-seat/ottawa/running-stroller/1083202355?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);...

ian wrote:Bring back the leather racing flats and cotton singlets!

I'm already wearing my budgie smugglers

Founders and admins can suck it. Mods rule.

In any event, happy 10th. My runiversary isn't until the fall (I was a couple of months late).

Jwolf wrote:I'm trying to figure out how that comment relates to the article I posted.

We stopped doing depletion runs and carbo-loading, we stopped breaking records. We claim to know more than we used to, but we're actually running slower.

$100,000 if he runs a 3:11:45 man I'd be doing some heavy trainiopportunityif he runs a 3:25 or a variety of other times for shorter distances.... Dead horse or not, that's a lot of cash :-? http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/letsruncom-offers-massive-reward-to-viral-boston-marathon-dad?c...