Race Shirts on Location X Monthly Running News
This abbreviated version of Monthly Running News is inspired by a great picture we received today! Eliud Kipchoge set a new world record of 2:01:39 in front of 44,000 runners at the 2018 Berlin Marathon this weekend, taking over a minute off the previous record which was set on the same course four years ago. […]
Club Spotlight: Health and Performance
Local running clubs are an important part of the Kitchener-Waterloo community. They bring fitness, knowledge and competition to the local running community and we are proud to feature them. In this edition, we are catching up with Sean Delanghe of Health and Performance. Sean is the head coach of H+P and a chiropractor from Waterloo with a keen […]
Can you train your gut to handle carbs?
I’ve written a few times (1, 2, 3, 4) before about how important it is to ingest carbs while racing a distance that takes over ~40-60mins to enhance performance. There still seems to be some resistance to doing this; some of it is fueled by pseudoscience, but some is fueled by the very legitimate concern […]
Can Vitamin C Help Runners to Stay Healthy?
Last week I spent most of the week with a mild head cold. Nothing crazy, but enough to motivate me to review my old immunology notes yet again to relearn what I already know (it’s always fun picturing the T-cells destroying the bad stuff). Times like these also motivate me to relearn other things, like […]
How much faster do lighter shoes make us?
When race day comes around, it’s always nice to have little things that you can do to run faster without actually having to be more fit. I think for most of us, it’s logical that if our shoes are substantially lighter, we’re going to require less oxygen to run at a given pace. However, what […]
Is festive sugar-loading a bad thing pre-run?
The holiday season is upon us, which means the sugar content in our diets will be on the rise. No complaints here; sugar is delicious! Plus, as runners, we can get away with eating a lot more than our non-running friends. When we run, as most runners know, glycogen (chains of carbs stored in our […]
Look around and boost your running economy!
When you are months out from race day, there are numerous things you can do to get faster. For instance, (surprise) you could run more! However, when you’re within days of your important race, the physiology you have laid down for yourself is already set. The money is in the bank, the hay is in […]
The gender gap in running, revisited
Last year I wrote an article about the gender gap in running. In the article, I talked about how the SRY gene is responsible for men getting a massive dose of testosterone, which leads to the 11-12% gender gap we see across all distances. Check out my full article here. The one area where there […]
Maybe You Shouldn’t Change Your Stride (Part 3)
Throughout the last few months, my articles have been focused on how we ought (or ought not to) alter our stride to enhance running economy. Last month, for instance, I looked at stride length, and how deviating from a naturally selected length will likely make you slower. This month, I will address one aspect that I have […]
Running beyond the limits of pain
For anybody to run at their best, regardless of ability, that means pushing through pain. I am here to tell you that ALL of us runners, while we feel we push at or above our limits, are still likely not reaching our physiological limits of performance. It would be nice to finish a race knowing […]
