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Bookmarkable running moments of 2021

Running from the Facts: "Can we just fast-forward to the end of the civilization movie?" edition

July 22, 1987: Said Aouita becomes the first man under 13:00 for 5,000 meters

Lessons and bon mots from another year as a pile of animated meat

Perhaps the Lia Thomas splash will be a turning point in the public perception of transgender athletes

The curious endurance of the Balboa Park cross-country course

Running from the Facts: "Wokism grabs a board, but continues surfing personal waves" edition

"Fourteeners" create an avalanche in Alabama at the Garmin RunningLane XC Championships

Rewarding decades of progress, USATF drops the women's Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time to 2:37:00

An already controversial and gender-rigged Hardrock 100 lottery is loaded with a troublesome new variable

The Department of Justice is investigating the relationship between USA Track & Field and its corporate puppeteer

Jeff Johnson is writing a book

Shelby Houlihan's GoFundMe campaign highlights elite running's next logical step: Just eliminate shoe contracts

Running's "inclusiveness" scramble is a carnival of narcissism, self-contradiction, laziness, and coercion

Five years well hosed off, if not precisely clean

Complaints about Oregon's body-fat monitoring reflect personal body shame, not concern for others

Meets of Champions, champions of meets

I sometimes send e-mails

Brief remarks about a dumb petition to change the format of NCAA cross-country

Making up for lost sanity

From talk about crossing the country to talking cross-country

The cruel, stepwise execution of American Airlines flight 1316, in screenshots

The inexplicable stagnation of the marathon world records throughout the 1990s

An attempt to evaluate the complaints about University of Oregon coach Robert Johnson

Complaints that Alberto Salazar abused Nike Oregon Project members are no longer credible

Letesenbet Gidey throws a hematocrit party on the streets of València

1 in 1,000 New Hampshire residents is a middle-school cross-country runner

The lessons of Steve Ovett's career

Spineless liar Latoya Snell can't finish a race or back up her bravado, so now she's winning imaginary arguments

NewHampshireCrossCountry.com keeps pulling away from the subscriber-supported competition

August 5, 1984: Joan Benoit wins the first Olympic Women’s Marathon

Clean Sport Collective soils itself in a rambling chat with a journalist impersonator

Ten highly influential events in competitive running spanning ten Olympic Games

A long, busy weekend of strides and stumbles

How poorly will Galen Rupp run in Chicago?

Running from the Facts: "Hypocrisy is a zombie with a titanium head" edition

Having apparently exhausted its supply of culture-war meat, Women's Running resorts to cannibalism

Not to be upstaged by Chicago and Boston, the Boulderthon is finally here

Ten collections of late-20th-century music that summon desirable mood states

No shoe company, media outlet, or pro runner would be dumb enough to support a belligerent scammer like Latoya Shauntay Snell

Welcome to Boulder, the nation's most powerful magnet for its dumbest smart people

Cross-country claims another lover from running's friend zone

"No one would do something that dumb" is the smart crowd's favorite stupid claim

Women athletes are the real targets of the running media's "feminist" takes, and we* leave it to them to fight for their own respect

Legacy outlet profiles "subversive" would-be conqueror of legacy outlets; incompetent journalism, including the author's own, goes unmentioned

I am a cheese-seeking missile

Doping should not currently be considered a rules violation in women's athletics

The media's treatment of Shelby Houlihan's suspension diverges into a two-headed deception snake

This land was your land, this land is my land

In shocking development in Shelby Houlihan doping suspension, CAS formally snickers at comedic burrito defense

The kind of home-and-away podcast series we* need to notice more

Re. Mboma, Niyonsaba et al., it's entirely up to the athletes now

Thoughts heading into the most talent-packed Diamond League meet ever

Running from the Facts: "Nope, Caster's testes are still there" edition

Echoes from a pair of resounding Olympic 1,500-meter finals

A full-blooded Boulder anecdote

In reckless display of candor, Emma Coburn refuses to credit poor mental health for sucky Olympic race

This time, it was Molly Seidel's turn to unfurl an Olympic tearjerker

The midfielder formerly known as Rebecca Quinn summarizes the insanity of the gender-bending craze

Matt Centrowitz's failure to advance is the most unsurprising "shocker" of the Olympics

Some snippets of a fast-growing 2021 Olympics tale

An investigative reporter investigates nothing in lamenting Francine Niyonsaba's disqualification

What's your personalized interface with distance running?

I was gonna, but this instead

A huge list of tips on summer running with dogs

A relatable tale about prank-calling, bad golfing, and 1980s teenage shenanigans (Part 1)

A year's worth of "anti-racism" in running has been surprisingly helpful, albeit to the wrong people

Running from the Facts: "Black women have no agency, even star athletes" edition

A brief and harmless experiment-interlude

Running from the Facts: "Lying is the new empathy is the new journalism" edition

Has the Internet been a net plus for running? (Part 2)

Hollywood's portrayals of running are hilarious, but we* already have a running media for that

Running from the Facts: "When all else fails, fart your way around Beaverton" edition

Has the Internet been a net plus for running? (Part 1)

Running from the Facts: "Showing our true colors" edition

Organizational note

The good and bad varieties of "elitism"

2021 Olympic Trials perspectives and event-adjacent frivolities

Embracing their own incompetence, running's "journalists" continue pushing Nike's false Shelby Houlihan narrative

After an uneventful five years, the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials are back

A quick take on quick takes: The media's symbolic effort to overturn Shelby Houlihan's settled doping case

I stink of creek

The women's 10,000-meter record blitz highlights just how dramatic a shift is occurring, and it hasn't peaked yet

A biased and incomplete recap of the New Hampshire divisional state championship meets

Running from the Facts: "Shitting in our own nests" edition

Watered-down wanderlust, Part 3

New Hampshire high-school track regular-season wrap-up, genuine drama included

Supplement to "Running from the Facts: Follow the money—what little there is" edition

Running from the Facts: "Follow the money—what little there is" edition

Joshua Cheptegei takes aim at the Mons Olympus of distance records

Every good broken record includes dust, skips and unclear numbers

A post-midseason New Hampshire track report, live from Utah

Watered-down wanderlust, Part 2

Watered-down wanderlust, Part 1

Running from the Facts: "Peeping Toms sure do hate perverts" edition

The latest racing shoes offer more than just a speed boost to ambitious high-schoolers

The Tinman effect

Why are women runners with great media gigs so chronically defeated? (2/2)

Why are women runners with great media gigs so chronically defeated? (1/2)

Well, that escalated quickly

Running from the Facts: "Solidifying the echo-chamber" edition

Spring track is back, and kids are sucking it up

I was awesome that day

I inspired an entire community to show its face. I'm not the only one with this power.

Remembering my first and drunkest Boston Marathons

Running from the Facts: "It's 2021, so Tucker Carlson talked to a New Hampshire track coach" edition

"We're helpless and need to be rescued" is a bad look when peddling empowerment

New Hampshire track coach canned for mask-defying letter to boss

Running from the Facts: "Muttering into a bullhorn" edition

Revisiting Daniel Komen, who forever changed running in the spree that kept on giving (Part 2)

Revisiting Daniel Komen, who forever changed running in the spree that kept on giving (Part 1)

A powerful example of the immorality, groupthink, and self-defeating motives of Wokish media snipers

Running from the Facts: Vernal Equinox edition

Even the NYT can find better bad propagandists than Lindsay Crouse

Ten lives gone in Boulder, and twisted beyond death

A contrast in sport-shaping: Letsrun and Fast Women

The USATF Foundation is a tide lifting a harbor's worth of boats

Running's influencers, editors and "journalists" are now indistinguishable from each other (conclusion)

Running's influencers, editors and "journalists" are now indistinguishable from each other, continued

Running's influencers, editors and "journalists" are now indistinguishable from each other

Tommy Atherton's remarkable 1970 cross-country season

The easiest, smartest way to imitate elite runners

Infiltrating the Runner's World "Join the Movement" issue (IV)

A belated goodbye to revelatory magazine articles about elite runners

I guess I have to bring this up

A review of Keeping Track's seminal sports-gender conversation

It's time to retire the outdoor-masking charade, or at least admit it's a religious fixation

Addendum to yesterday's post

Infiltrating the Runner's World "Join the Movement" issue (III)

Can we* stop stifling laughter, no matter how good it seems to feel?

Keeping Track takes a tentative but solid step toward equalizing the sports-gender conversation

If this is advocacy for women's running, what does opposition look like?

A note to subscribers

A brief but instructive encounter with a social-justice starlet: "Your blocked!"

The difference between a great man and a great woman is complicated, arithmetically speaking

Demonization tactics are brutish, destructive and obvious. So who benefits?

Revisiting equivalent performances in shoetastic times

Outside continues hacking away at its peers, and we* shouldn't expect a let-up

Infiltrating the Runner's World "Join the Movement" issue (II)

News headlines consisted of a single sentence before 2020. Then "Then this happened" happened.

Viginti ex MMXX