Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is a particularly common knee injury that affects 100,000 to 200,000 people each year in the United States. It is the same injury that Tiger Woods struggled with when he won the US Open Golf Championship in 2008 and subsequently, had surgery on.
What is it? The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) helps to stabilize the knee joint by preventing excessive movement of the shin bone (tibia)…
I love running.
I don't love swimming, biking, push-ups, weightlifting, discus throwing, tossing the caber or Johnny on the Pony.
Running seven days a week is really, really bad for my legs, so my off-days are off-days. I don't run and I don't (grimace) cross-train.
That is, until an injury forced me to find some way to maintain a semblance of aerobic fitness while recuperating. Standing in the gym with dozens of machines…
Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell of Jamaica are both teammates and rivals. They both have Olympic gold medals. They are the current and former world record holders in the 100 meters.
But can they dance?
Judge for yourself in this video of Bolt and Powell having a dance-off at a party sponsored by Puma after the Olympics.
There is a hi-res version on the Puma web site titled Chasing Bolt.
I'm guessing this is…
You have no doubt heard people tout the positive motivational effect that music can have on your running, but according to new research it may be more than just a motivational tool.
Scientists at Brunel University's School of Sport and Education have been researching the role of motivational music on sport and exercise for 20 years. It is expected that they will soon publish the results of this newest study that…
I needed to free up my eponymous blog for other writing endeavors and so decided last month to create RunningIsFunny.com for all of my running-related blogging.
I was perfectly willing to fill it with my normal rantings, but I wondered if there was a Carnival of Running to help me direct readers to other useful material.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a blog carnival is, according to Wikipedia, "a…
New World Record for the Marathon
About 20 years ago, I remember stumbling across a novel about three runners vying to be the first to break two hours for the marathon. At the time, Alberto Salazar had run 2:08:13 in New York (a world record later decertified). Even after that performance, I still thought breaking two hours was next to impossible. Now I'm not so sure. Haile Gebrselassie ran 2:03:59 in…
This is a follow-up from my last article about building up sharpness for your big goal race by completing preparation races.
Once you get closer to your final race, you might want to reconsider your approach to a preparation race. This is especially true if you are training for a marathon. If, say, you have a half marathon lined up three or four weeks before your big day, you can either…
I took a short break from writing about running because I had to take a short break from running. For the second year in a row, my marathon training and Boston aspirations were sidelined by peroneal tendonitis.
I was pretty bummed about it, especially because my wife and I planned a week's vacation around the Maui Half Marathon. OK, so we were still going to enjoy the sun, sand and surf…
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