Howdy all. Happy All Saints Day. We celebrate the day after Halloween with a bit of peace...and pieces of chocolate. Yum!
This weekend is the annual Winterstart Night Run. I have been a participant for almost every year since 1996 when Jo-Louise Munday introduced me to the race. She was the manager of the Tech Shop back then and introduced me to Jim Morris, the organizer of the event. He was a passionate investor to our trotting community (and full time savior to it as a Police Detective) until his early death earlier this year.
We will be honouring Jim at the event this year and I hope all of you are able to be there for the first Jim Morris Memorial award to be awarded. Come say hi if you see me carrying two beers to send cheers in honour of the 'stache.
As the event is in Banff I will be unable to host the most at the usual Saturday trot. If you are able please join the Winterstart non-starters as the meet at 9 am in the Eau Claire YMCA.
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Hey Greg, is this one of your old buddies from Kansas City?
KC Marathon Runner Knits His Way into a Record
Posted: Oct 20, 2013 12:42 PM by The Associated Press
Updated: Oct 20, 2013 12:52 PM
KANSAS CITY - A 41-year-old man who ran the Kansas City Marathon has apparently broken a record, but not for running.
David Babcock, a graphic design professor at the University of Central Missouri, broke the Guinness world record for longest scarf knitted while running a marathon.
The Kansas City Star reports Babcock knitted a scarf measuring more than 12 feet long while he ran the marathon Saturday. The Guinness scarf knitting record was previously held by Susie Hewer, for a 6 foot, nine inch scarf knitted during a London marathon in April.
Babcock's scarf was measured by the president of an accredited calibration service, who will verify to Guinness the authenticity of Babcock's accomplishment.
Babcock, who finished the marathon in under six hours, says he has a smooth gait.
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April Clay of
www.bodymindmotion.com always provides some interesting insight into our world of trotting. when I read this I can't help but think about all the events that I used to train peeps to complete. when I was a foolish young runner the events were almost entirely entered by males. Now the 'other' half of the population have discovered the love of the trot. Of this change, women were the ones that understood training for an event was an important part of attaining the goal.
Oct. 25, 2013 — Men might be faster, but women are stronger in numbers in the nation's largest 10-kilometer road running races, according to a Northwestern Medicine® study.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 400,000 runners who participated in 10 of the largest 10km (6.2 mile) races in the U.S. from as early as 2002 through 2011.
Other findings from the study, the first to analyze performance trends among the nation's 10km runners, include:
- The top groups of men and women appear to be getting faster
- The fastest men are also increasingly younger
- There are more sub-hour finishers, with increasingly more women accomplishing this feat compared to men
- An increasing percentage of finishers, however, are completing races in more than one hour
The study was published online in the
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
"It seems that as these large races have more people participating, we have slower runners, but I see that as a positive thing," said Dan Cushman, M.D., lead author of the study.
"It's not just elite runners or former high school athletes running today's 10km races, there are more everyday people running this distance," Cushman said. "One of the best things we can do to improve our health is exercise and taking on a 10km race is a great goal."
Cushman is a clinical instructor in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chief resident at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Ten-kilometer races have become increasingly popular in the U.S. over the past decade with 1.3 million people participating in such races in 2010. Women began outnumbering men in the 2006 and 2007 timeframe and today make up the majority of runners who participate in these 10 large 10km races in the U.S., Cushman said.
"Coaches and trainers can use this information to develop more women-specific 10km training programs to accommodate this surge of female middle-distance runners," Cushman said.
