Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

The Final Sprint has an amazing interview with Ryan Hall the new American half-marathon record-holder. Check it out. This podcast is definitely worth subscribing to they are rumored to have a lot of great interviews coming up.

Flocast has a couple cool interviews with some amazing Canadian talents.
Simon Bairu is one of the top NCAA XC runners and the top Canadian XC runner 5 years running. His future is bright. Watch the interview here.
Canadian middle distance legend Kevin Sullivan is also interviewed here. Mentions in the interview he ran a 1:53/800m […]

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 hilarious.

This doc about Australian Craig Mottram one of the greatest distance athletes is amazing.
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According to this Runnersworld article experienced runners can improve their times by up to 8% by adding “explosive training”.
Paton believes this form of training may be the newcomer to the endurance-training dance, waltzing onto the floor well behind interval training and tempo training. Explosive sport-specific strength training increases your endurance by improving your running […]