Sitemap - 2019 - Beck of the Pack

If these are your generals, don't expect a revolution

Video (yes) of the 1972 New England High-School Cross-Country Championships

The state of the running media, and an eponym

Bill Luti, 1921-2019

Advocacy plus cynicism equals reality

Worn down

N.H. Meet of Champions recap

God knows there were holes in that barn

Concord High teams pull off an unprecedented double

A few steps ahead of EPO

More comedy from the Salazar suspension

Excellent comic timing

The Liberty Bell Invite results exemplify an ongoing Colorado youth bonanza

Coleman offered leniency owing to exceptional efficacy of doping regimen

Dear adults in the Runner's World editorial room

How to Beat the East Africans, revisited

Instead of Tweets, Vol. 6

Instead of tweets, Vol. 5

Fuckin' weirdo

Instead of tweets, Vol. 4

SIM not provisioned

Asshole captured in action on doomed bridge

Instead of tweets, Vol. 3

Instead of tweets, Vol. 2

Instead of tweets, Vol. 1

Outside Online is giving the Lifetime Channel a run for its money

Linkless scrap heap

Is Bernard Lagat the Dennis Eckersley of running?

Ironically, I don't even have a bad pun for this one

Kingmaker, talent scout or early bandwagon jumper?

Messaging and the purpose of blogs

Voices carry, a streak ends, and post-vanity recreation, in reverse order

Why you should never allow any child you care about near a track team

A half-dozen running questions likely to stump almost everyone

Closing the door on Outside

The suicide-bomber tactics of East African dopers

The revenge of the choppy, workmanlike gait

Some of the dumbest stuff about elite track and field ever written (including blog posts)

Road trip or roving relocation?

I have favorite things

The Outside invoice clock is ticking

The shit-processor: Part 2 of why running is no place to achieve (the good kind of) fame

The "sport" of distance running will never be popular (and why this is mostly a good thing), Part 1

Vigilantism looks better and better every day

When life is a living hell

Orts aplenty

"This one got a little stalled" (or: Pulling the plug, part 2)

Inside a movement to elevate youth running

Pulling the plug, part 1

Boys in girls' races

If cheating in races is widespread now...

Status quo

Mirror mirror

Sports "diets" are about the process, not the outcome

My uncle the child molester is dead and other indicators of a wondrous cosmos

Effective drug testing is the "taxing the super-rich" of athletics

Altitude training may not be worth it, and other scatterings and orts

Alternative engagement

The Heisenberg principle, recovery-run style

Famous runners I met in high school

Gimme gimme gimme

One glaring lie

A glimpse 25 years into the future

Locals who should be put to the the sword: Part 1 of a limited series