Running Lessons from Isaac Newton

A while back, CRN co-founder Mark posed the question to me: “Hey, Bill? How does having lost weight change my running? As in: I know it makes me faster, but can you quantify that?”
Being an engineer, I was tempted to snap back that I’d spent four years and a decent part of my potential life’s […]

Lose Weight & Get Faster

There was a nice little table in Runner’s World this month that illustrates how much faster you could be if you lost weight. Of course, this would not take into account speed increases due to training.

Pounds Lost

5k

10k

1/2 Marathon

Marathon

2

:12.4

:25

:52

1:45

5

31

1:02

2:11

4:22

10

1:02

2:04

4:22

8:44

20

2:04

4:08

8:44

17:28

According to RW author Amby Burfoot, the table is based on research that runners, on average […]

Starting Over

What Happened?
Six months ago I ran a fabulous 30K and was seriously on top of my running game. I had just come off a hard winter training session and was looking forward to breaking my 5K PR this summer. Then I got a new job. And moved. To another state.
And gained 15 pounds.
My running ground […]

Weighing In

We have a running bet—no pun intended—within my running circle. We guess how much weight we’ll gain by the time a big race rolls around. Despite always declaring we’re each going to lose 10 pounds, and this time keep it off, we never do. After reading last week’s Personal Health column by Jane Brody of […]

Engineering Your Weight Loss

So, last week we were talking about teaching the boy to run. This week, I’d like to take a stroll down memory lane…
A little more than two years ago, I was on the verge of being fat. Like BMI of over 30 fat. (BMI being the U.S. Government’s measure of big bone-ed-ness). And I didn’t […]