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Category: General Running and/or Fitness
March 20, 2012
The Perfect Runner
No no, I don’t consider myself “The Perfect Runner” … yet. A friend of mine sent me a link to an amazing documentary on CBC.ca. It’s “The Perfect Runner” on CBC’s The Nature of Things. It has more detail than even Christopher McDougall’s “Born To Run.” I love the evolutionary biology from Professor Daniel Lieberman at Harvard University. The documentary even explores why East African’s are the best runners. They claim that their advantage is not because of superior genes, but because of hardier upbringing. I love that it ends with the narrator running The Canadian Deathrace. Only 125km… […continue reading]
March 17, 2012
Valley Inn Road – Recon Mission
On Saturday, March 17, I ran the infamous “Valley Inn Road” in Hamilton. This hill has about 25 meters of rise and it’s famous because it comes at around the 26th kilometer of the Around The Bay 30k Road Race. The purpose of this run was not only to do reconnaissance for the race, but to do some hill repeats. Last year when I ran this race, Valley Inn Road hill nearly killed me. The first time up the hill today it was really easy! I was wondering what I was complaining about the year before! By the 4th repeat,[…continue reading]
March 16, 2012
Hundred Up Challenge!
I’m finally jumping on the bandwagon and trying the “Hundred Up Challenge.” If you haven’t heard of this, you must be living under some sort of rock. It has been all over the online running community, especially since Christoper McDougall gave it a raving review. The concept is pretty simple: Repeat an exercise where you lift each leg 50 times so that it’s parallel to the ground. This forces you to have a correct posture, use your hip flexors and land on your forefoot. The idea is to do it for 30 days and see if you have an improvement in[…continue reading]
