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Archive for November, 2008

Just In Time For The Holiday Season

Fast food companies are always looking out for your best interests (cough cough) so they have stepped up once again to offer a revolutionary product that saves you oodles of time during the busy holiday season.
Eat and shop without skipping a beat…I am not sure I can say the same for your heart. Check it [...]

Health Is A Choice

2/3 of Americans are overweight or obese.
1/2 of this group is obese.
4 out of 5 men are overweight or obese.

Last week I listened to an interview on the TV while running on a treadmill at the club and it mentioned that diabetics spend $6500 on health care per year! I am sure most of that [...]

How To Carry Powdered Nutrition During A Long Run

Warning: Goofy acronyms are used!
How can you carry enough of your favorite powdered nutrition to complete a long training run or race?
Here is a method I use for my 50km+ trail running races and long runs (3+ hours).
This method requires a few things.

You have access to additional water.
You are using a hand-held water bottle or [...]

Good Samaritan Gone Wrong

A little Friday funny for ya!

Have a great weekend and safe stretching!

Final Three Weeks

Back on the road for my final race of the year, the White Rock marathon. I really like this course as it has a little bit of everything (hills, flats, lake, city).
This is the event I qualified for Boston a couple years ago and this year will be a unique experience as I will be [...]

Support HHI And Double Your Investment

You need love. I need love. Children need love. We all need love.
Although not endurance sports related, I feel this is worthy of our attention.
Hands to Hearts Intl, a small non-profit based in Oregon, is doing big things in the spreading of love and personal power to orphaned children and economically disadvantaged women around the [...]

Hammer Nutrition Year End Sale

Who doesn’t like a sale, especially in this rather interesting economy?!
Hammer Nutrition is having their year end sale on all of their endurance sports nutritional products and gear. Prices are reduced by as much as 50%. (50% is on some clothing items) If you are a current user or would like to give Hammer Nutrition [...]

Tyson Foods and Public Deception

Do you prefer ethical versus unethical?
Do you prefer highly conscious versus low consciousness?
Do you prefer “clean” food versus drug filled food?
According to the article below, Tyson Foods had labeled their chicken to be “Raised Without Antibiotics” yet inject antibiotics into the chicken two to three days prior to being hatched. Since the injection occurs before [...]

2008 Rockledge Rumble Race Report

Over the weekend I and 249 other athletes got to enjoy the beautiful scenery and weather along the shores of Grapevine Lake as we participated in the 13th Annual Rockledge Rumble 50k/30k/15k trail run.

It has been a fall full of big races (Superior trails 50 mile run, Palo Duro 50 mile run, now Rockledge Rumble) [...]

Crossfit Caffeinated - Free Running

Wow! Wow! Wow!
I thought Crossfit was intense. Well, I found this video on Free Running and it takes things to an entirely different level.
So what is Free Running?

Free running is a physical art, in which participants (free runners) use the urban and rural areas to perform movements through its structures focused on freedom and beauty. [...]