Sitemap - 2021 - Beck of the Pack
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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
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
Jeff Johnson is writing a book
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
Brief remarks about a dumb petition to change the format of NCAA cross-country
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
The good and bad varieties of "elitism"
2021 Olympic Trials perspectives and event-adjacent frivolities
After an uneventful five years, the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials are back
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
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)
Running from the Facts: "Solidifying the echo-chamber" edition
Spring track is back, and kids are sucking it up
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
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
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 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.