[Editor's Note: The Case of the Gliding Shark (Adventures of Detective Speedo) is the first in, what might become, a series of short stories centered around Speedo - a fish detective. The author is my older son who'll soon turn ten. He wrote this story four months ago for a school assignment. Barring some editorial [...]
Steve Sashen of Invisibleshoe.com (now rebranded as XeroShoes.com) wrote an interesting blog post back in Dec 2009. I discovered it only a few days ago via an email subscription on his website. The gist of his article (which I agree with) is that soft surfaces are absolutely the worst surfaces for barefoot running and hard [...]
{Approximately 70% of this post was written using the Android WordPress app (in Flight Mode).} I ran my first full marathon in Oct 2002. I had spontaneously decided to train for the Mercury Interactive San Jose Marathon exactly 3.5 months earlier. The only marathoner I knew at that point was Mike Clothier. Mike, a colleague at [...]
A mini war of words erupted on our running group recently. The subject was Chris McDougall. I had shared this Jun 2009 McDougall article and highlighted the following quote which I found most interesting. Tony Krupicka, one of the greatest young ultra-runners, has worn the same pair of crappy, cross-country flats for the past six [...]
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump”: the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit. I’m sure about it. The triple [...]
In my last 5 years of increasingly regular marathon running, my consumption of running legends lore has been surprisingly minimal. After all, how many sports can one follow? Besides cricket, tennis, squash, and golf i.e. And where’s the written rule that states one shalt follow the sport that thy playeth? The above is just an elaborate [...]
Todd Becker, a freelance San Francisco Bay Area-based blogger, writes Getting Stronger - a blog on the philosophy of Hormetism, based on the application of progressive, intermittent stress to overcome challenges and grow stronger physically, mentally and emotionally. If the preceding sounded like a whole lotta mumbo-jumbo, may I request just a little patience. I was alerted to Becker’s blog [...]
English translation of title: You CAN teach an old dog new tricks – one small story! A few months ago, I finally enrolled for a Kannada Learning class. 4 1/2 years after moving to Bangalore, the time had finally arrived. 4 weekends (8 classes 2 hours each) conducted in the apartment common room – it couldn’t [...]
I think of Portia’s famous speech often – every time a corrupt minister gets implicated in a corruption scam. When Infosys’ Narayana Murthy came up with that ridiculous suggestion that anti-corruption legislation should be crafted to only punish the “taker” and not the “giver”, I thought of it again. When Vadragate broke I thought it [...]
“Does a runner at your level feel like you’d rather not run today, like you don’t want to run and would rather just sleep in?” He stared at me and then, in a voice that made it abundantly clear how stupid he thought the question was, replied “Of course. All the time!” The questioner? Novelist [...]
Treadmills get a bad rap. Serious (and snooty) runners look down on it.. You can ‘start’ running on treadmills but as soon as you get comfortable with 5k+ distances, it’s time to hit the trail/road. Or so is the guidance issued to newbie runners by seasoned runners. Yours truly has also routinely dished out that [...]
Prerequisite reading for this blog post: the story of Ekalavya. If you are a Mahabharata neophyte or if you just have a terrible memory, this Wikipedia page will come in handy.. as also this trinetra.org.uk page. Now let me walk you through an alterative Ekalavya mythology. After Dronacharya said “Sorry! No can do”, Ekalavya didn’t sit around moping nor [...]
When should you change your running shoes?
The triple jump running plan for marathoners
If running or cycling is your sport… double up
The Merchant of Corrupt Venice
Hale naayi-ge hosa tricksu kalisa bahudu – ondu chikka storyu
Hormetism, cold showers and barefoot running…
Examining Chris McDougall through a purchase funnel lens
The worst (and best) running surfaces for barefoot running
The Case of the Gliding Shark
The Case of the Gliding Shark
The worst (and best) running surfaces for barefoot running
When should you change your running shoes?
Examining Chris McDougall through a purchase funnel lens
The triple jump running plan for marathoners
If running or cycling is your sport… double up
Hormetism, cold showers and barefoot running…
Hale naayi-ge hosa tricksu kalisa bahudu – ondu chikka storyu
The Merchant of Corrupt Venice
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