As we mentioned earlier, it’s a big couple of days for long-awaited reports. First, there is the Mitchell report, which was mentioned in , and which we’ll analyse over the coming days. Then second, there’s a report from the IAAF on whether Oscar Pistorius should be allowed to compete against able bodied athletes. This has […]
Archives for December 2007
Mitchell Report due today
Eighteen months ago, former US Senator George Mitchell launched a probe into steroid use in baseball. The probe is the result of an unprecedented shake-up in Major League Baseball that started as far back as 1998, when reporters noticed a tub of androstenedione in aspiring home run champ Mark McGwire’s locker. McGwire went on to […]
Interesting news from the marathon
We’re bang in the middle of our series on Running Economy, but thought that for today, we’d take a break from that series and turn our attention to a few interesting news stories that are coming out of the world of marathon running. The Sub-2 hour marathon: Debate re-opened The first is a discussion about […]
Running Economy Part II
Today sees Part II of our series on Running Economy. After spending the first two posts and discussing the , today we move onto some fundamental concepts of running economy – the physiology and biomechanics of running economy explained (partly, we hope!) I say “fundamental” with some caution, because the more one digs into this […]
Running Economy Part I
we introduced a new series, Running Economy, inspired by this study, which was published just last week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. It makes a great start to a series that we’ll build on next week, looking at the importance of running economy to performance. We must of course make the disclaimer that […]