Five Things Running: Issue #57
Today is Boston Marathon Day. Before you go running, read this!
Hi and welcome back to Five Things Running! I didn’t get to run at all last week, I needed some rest and some healing after falling on my chest on a trail run two weeks ago. I hope your running was better than mine!
No running means more time for reading and I spent some time reading all the great articles on alleslaufbar.de - the new platform for all things trail running. As you might have guessed, this site is in German. I can highly recommend it! And funny enough, I happen to know one of the founders. Not because I’m so deep into the German trailrunning scene, but because I met Christian and his wife Juliane at a family gathering of one of my wife’s best and oldest friends. Anyhow, it’s great that a new independent media platform for trailrunning has launched! In case you wonder what “alles laufbar” means, it could be translated with “it’s all runnable”, something trailrunners always like to say…
Before you dig into their content, go ahead and read these five articles about running!
Humility in a Selfish Sport: An Action Plan
“The rugged individualism we hold high is misguided. At best, a lone wolf outlook is limiting. At worst, white-knuckling through life alone is risky and damaging. We can be better runners, partners, and friends if we show gratitude for the support we’re given, ask for help when we need it, and notice all the ways the Universe conspires to lift us up.” -
has some ideas on how to achieve all this.To Share or Not to Share: How Elite Runners Manage Their Strava Profiles
It must be tough if you need to be somewhat of a public figure because of sponsorship obligations and whatnot, but at the same time you need to limit what you can share for various reasons. I like to look at Strava profiles of elite runners, just to be in awe of what they accomplish in any given week. Also, I’m oversharing online even before the term social media was coined. You can find my Strava profile here.
The Hardest Geezer: Meeting the ‘hardest gals and geezers’ who run across continents
Resistance training partially reverses some of the hallmarks of aging type II muscle fibers
“A recent study tested whether heavy resistance training could reverse some of the age-related cellular-level changes in skeletal muscle that are generally considered irreversible.” - awesome.
The Die Is Cast...
To all of you running Boston (or any other spring marathon for that matter), I hope you got some tapering done and are fresh enough for a great run!
has seen the taper gremlins before and knows a thing or two about it.That’s all for now!
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Now, go running!
— Nico
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