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Should Runners Be Wary Of Certain Mouthwashes? 25 Oct 2012 | 10:36 pm
I recently finished Michael Specter’s eye-opening “Germs Are Us” article in the Oct. 22 edition of The New Yorker. It argues, in part, that antibiotics and similar products that we’ve invented for med...
The Magness-Salazar Taper: A New Wrinkle? 19 Oct 2012 | 08:18 pm
This week, preparing for Sunday morning’s RW Half Marathon, I’m testing a sort of modified Magness-Salazar Taper System (MSTS). Yesterday I ran fast. Today I’m running fast. Tomorrow I’m running fast....
How To Be 40 Years Old At 80 15 Oct 2012 | 01:29 am
You may think that Ed Whitlock is hot stuff (profile link; recent news link), and so do I. In fact, I think he’s possibly the world’s most remarkable runner. Whitlock set his 19th billion world age-g...
The 2-Hour-Marathon Debate Continues 4 Oct 2012 | 05:40 pm
By Amby Burfoot Get ready for decades of debate about the sub-2-hour marathon. There are more important issues: Can the running boom somehow help the public-health effort to curtail obesity? Should we...
Focus on Fitness, Not Your Metabolism 1 Aug 2012 | 04:31 pm
I’m in London totally immersed in RW's coverage of the Olympic Games, but I just noticed today’s New York Times Phys Ed column titled “Diet vs Exercise for Weight Loss,” and it’s bothering me a little...
Ryan Hall, Testing the Limits of His New Coach 16 Jul 2012 | 07:52 am
Ryan Hall is a man of unquestionable faith, and we see more of that (in both startling photos and great writing) than ever before in Jere Longman's long Hall profile in the New York Times. This brings...
Q&A with the “Potential Adverse Effects” of Endurance Exercise Authors 14 Jun 2012 | 07:09 pm
Cardiologist Chip Lavie, a veteran runner with a marathon best of 3:10, had his name on two exercise reports that attracted a lot of attention last week. The first, an abstract presented at the annual...
The Latest Reports, and a New Book, on Barefootin’ and Minimalist Shoes 10 Jun 2012 | 11:10 pm
For several weeks, I’ve been meaning to do an update on everyone’s favorite topic--barefootin’ and minimalism, right? But I just haven't found the time. Rather than waiting longer, I’m going to settle...
Exercise: Is It Bad for Some? Is There an Upper Limit for Your Health? What’s Going On? 5 Jun 2012 | 02:25 am
We seem to be in one of those wacky periods where new research is bubbling up to suggest that we should “exercise caution” in our exercise habits. No one is saying that exercise is a bad thing, just t...
Running v. Walking: How Many Calories Will You Burn? 25 May 2012 | 03:53 am
Two weeks ago, I began planning an update to a Walking v. Running calorie-burn article that I had written for Runner’s World magazine in 2005. When that article subsequently appeared on the RunnersWor...
