Performance enhancing substances – do they work? And by how much? It’s a relevant question, and I thought it would be good to have a look at the answers. I was going to write an article on the Ethiopian dominance of long distance running in the last ten years, but we’ve been receiving such thoughtful […]
The shadow of drugs over the Tour de France
The 2007 Tour de France begins in about 2 weeks from today, and yet again, an ominous shadow is looming over the race and the sport in general. You’ll see a doping alert news search down the left hand side of our blog, and unfortunately, it’s been in overdrive since we started out. It seems […]
A different approach to running – really funny
Here at the Science of Sport, we take a reasonably serious view on sport, since we try to analyse and dissect what goes into what you see. Of course, we try to keep things light and easy to follow, so that the science is interesting, but it’s still pretty factual. But we’re as open to […]
The Comrades they don’t show on TV
Today is our final look at the behind the scenes of the Comrades marathon, and as promised, we’ll have a look at some of the human interest stories and the science behind Comrades training. This is probably a bit late for many, but hopefully it’ll be interesting and stimulate some decent training for the next […]
Comrades Marathon 2007 – observations
The other day Andrew from Cape Town visited us for the first time, and dropped off some very kind and constructive comments. In a brief exchange between myself and Andrew, he dropped in this pearl from the Comrades broadcast on Sunday, which I think, more than any other, illustrates exactly the point I was making […]