Runningmonkeys

Why do runners wear gloves?  What sort of gloves do the trick?  Are you just soft if you wear gloves when you are running? 
This has been a personal interest of mine for some time now.  Of course at this time of year (cold winter), where I live, everyone is wearing gloves.  If you don’t wear […]

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If you are anything like me, if you run, then your nose will run too.  That sort of sounds like how when you smile the whole world smiles with you, but when you fall, the whole world walks right over your back(at least at the start of a race).  But I can’t get off the […]

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The newest new thing always attracts a lot of attention in the online world.  At the moment, in many people’s eyes, this newest new thing is Agloco.  If you haven’t heard the buzz going around yet, you soon will.  So now is the time to form an opinion about Agloco.  Let’s forget the hype and forget the […]

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Let me explain why I joined Agloco and why I think you should join agloco too.As runners, whether we run a marathon a half marathon or in fact any distance, we all get out there and day after day, we run.  We do it for health, or we do it for fun, or we do […]

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Injury recovery and the back to training schedule is one of the least popular topics for many runners.  A lot of us blindly hope not to get injured, and if we do get injured, then we just hope it will go away without disrupting our training too much.  
People say that “Ignorance is bliss” and that “What you […]

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Yesterday was MRI day for me.  Since this is the next day, and I often think of important things to after they have stopped being important, I decided to do a brief net search to see what an MRI is all about. 
Firstly, I guessed wrong when I assumed that MRI stands for “Muscle Right Inside” (which is […]

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First I should make it clear that I don’t like slowing down, and I don’t like feeling sore and I don’t like acidosis in my muscles.  However in my attempts to find out who has been committing these crimes in my body over the years, it looks like I have been guilty of slander. 
For many years […]

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Road Racing for Serious Runners ; Multispeed training :5k to Marathon (1999)
Pfitzinger, Pete and Douglas, Scott
Human Kinetics
Soft cover 188 pages black and white photos
 
My score 7 out of 10
This is obviously a book written for serious runners.  Now I’m not sure if that rules out those of us who like a joke but I have […]

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Pfitzinger, Pete and Douglas, Scott (2001)
Advanced Marathoning 
published by Human Kinetics
Soft cover 237 pages, black and white photos
 
My score 8 out of 10
Advanced Marathoning sounds to me like an attractive concept for a running book.  Many of the books available out there focus on general training for any distance or sometimes get specific about completing marathons.  […]

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Apparently,　today (3rd February 2007) is the last day of winter, according to “the old Japanese calendar”.  Now, I don’t know how old this calendar is but I think it is way out compared to the current calendar and today’s climate.  But there is something significant about today, and it involves change over.  On this last day, […]

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