About three years ago, I was attending a Sports Medicine and Science Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, and had dinner with a fairly large group, among whom was a certain Amby Burfoot. Of course, I had heard of Amby, since he won the Boston Marathon in 1968. He then went on to become the Executive Editor […]
Running
The Comrades Ultra Marathon
Last week, we received an email from Alan, and he asked us to look at the following three performances from this year’s Comrades Marathon: I said , however, that we would probably end up sitting on the fence, and stop short of ranking them, because they’re so different and can’t really be compared directly. One […]
Comrades marathon – some really fascinating questions
Every once in a while, we get some absolute pearls from visitors to the blog. And this email, which we recieved yesterday evening, is an example of one. I will paraphrase Mr Alan Sleath’s questions, which we at The Science of Sport will attempt to address over the next while. Alan’s questions were the following: […]
Altitude training – the basics
So I really struggle to come up with a decent post for today, felt like doing something on cycling again, now that Jorg Jaksche has admitted to doping and suggested it is pervasive in the peloton. For some classic quotes, have a look at this article. The most telling this is the reaction of the […]
A comprehensive running link
A while back, we did an analysis of the African and American marathon performances, and asked whether the Africans were really ‘unbeatable’? While looking up some of the info for that post, I (Jonathan) came across Jim2’s Running page – think running encyclopedia meets chat forum, and you’d have a description of this blog. He […]