Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

This is a cool video of the final stretch of Paul Tergat’s WR 2:04:56 marathon in Berlin.

The truth is stranger than fiction…
An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women’s 800 metres at the Asian Games failed a gender test and was stripped of the medal.
Shanti Sounderajan, 25, took the gender test in Doha, Qatar, after placing second.
The Indian Olympic Association said Monday it has been told by the […]

This is a very interesting article on sportingo.com:
A recent article claims that Lance Armstrong’s testicular cancer actually helped him during the Tour de France.
According to the authors, having your testicles cut off (well one, anyway) is performance enhancing. But perhaps in their over-zealousness to ‘unmuddy the waters’ of persistent doping allegations surrounding Armstrong, the authors […]

Gebrselassie takes on the challenge of beating himself.

Pezcycling has another great Tool box describing the relationship between training and sickness. I have experienced this too often in the last year, I litteraly ran myself into the ground.
The consensus conclusion is that a little bit of exercise and fitness is terrific for strengthening your immune system, but either too little or too much […]

This is a hilarious video of comedian Lee Evans training with Ethiopian distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie.

I think milers are the coolest athletes hands down. They have the speed of a sprinter and the endurance of a marathoner, they are the true thoroughbreds of running. Just think about these times when you do your next mile repeat session…
Hicham El Guerrouj sets a world record in the mile 3:43.13

Alan Webb’s American HS […]

This is hilarious.