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Bookmarkable running moments of 2022

I LOVE FOOD

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SOMEONE IS JOKING ABOUT SACRED TOPICS AGAIN

Two great and very different bands: Toto and Pink Floyd

The 1999 Jingle Bell 5K Run for Arthritis

Hostile posers and activists for passe' or nonexistent causes are running's (and everyone's) darlings

Winter has put an emphatic stamp on its official arrival

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POLL: Who was the top American female distance runner of 2022?

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A historical contextualization of the 2022 Champs Sports Cross-Country Finals

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A different way to consecrate birthday runs

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Women's Running reports a MASSIVE drop in female tracksters' share of abusive online comments

Brooks Running is a broken, backward, racist company

Texts from local man reveal benevolence of car thieves, Little Pharma

A brief intermission

Sinead Diver's 2:21:34 is unique outlier

Orlando, a blighted horror screaming for its own eradication, will host the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials

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I HATE FOOD

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The 2022 Valencia Marathon was a choose-your-own-splits adventure for the winners

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NXN: Colorado girls bring it big, Newbury Park boys shrug off the "collapse" of the Young twins

How fast will Letesenbet Gidey run in the Valencia Marathon?

Just an advisory: the NXN races are being livestreamed for free at noon Eastern Time

Matt Taibbi's expose' of Twitter's catastrophic internal meltdown

David and Megan Roche are classic sleazebags

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Latoya Snell's "deleted" half-hour of psychotic gaslighting, and some words for the people who reward such episodes

New Hampshire boys shine at NXN Northeast

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Staking out local territory

What's left of the cross-country season

Gratias in deserto

Six years dry

Brooks exiles a "Run Happy" member for criticizing Strava's support of cheater Latoya Snell, who's not even a Brooks sponsee

The New York Times, again sampling the intelligence of its readership, is pushing experimental covid vaccines

Another attack on a college distance program misses the fundamental point

Do David Roche's clients read?

It's pretty easy to determine where you stand as a distance runner

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It's not lonely at the top when "the top" is crammed into a small set of frantic, intimate encounters

Pushback against running's sleaze-distributors gained a blip of momentum last week

The New England Championships, and a partial NCAA Regionals recap

Brownout

Running's pundits are pissed at The NYT for committing a rare instance of skeptical journalism

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REPORT: Too many training partners leads to underperforming on marathon day, especially in Boulder

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Weekend action: Warm "New England" Champs qualifying meets, plus a race-like production in Gotham

Is the inverse bucket-list a thing?

The New Hampshire Meet of Champions is this afternoon

Why are so many people dying?

Promoting a racist, destructive slug as a progressive, visionary runner seems unwise

The Javelina Jundred mishandled its own fantasyland three-gender system. Now it's blaming the world for the problems this caused.

Woke "breathwork coach" plans to run a marathon on no training with his mouth taped shut

Don't let "Professor" Emily Oster and the other Queen Karens off that easily

A short and needlessly tragic Twitter history

An addendum to very recent posts about Boulder and gender-juggling

Brooke Wilson just ran one of the best cross-country races in U.S. schoolgirl history

The Javelina Jundred is another victim of Wokish vandalism

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Boulder is a magnet for dipshit runners of privilege (continued)

Boulder is a magnet for dipshit runners of privilege

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The Colorado and New Hampshire state-championship meets are tomorrow

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Quickie: New York sanitation workers fired for refusing covid jabs reinstated with back pay

The perks of succumbing to Brownian running motion

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A peek at the USATF National Masters 5K XC Championships

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Running from the Facts: "Stop making Kenyan women dope before it infects the entire sport!" edition

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Who will be the SURPRISE BREAKOUTS of the N.H. XC season? NOBODY!

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Finally, female Boston Marathon runners are being treated unfairly again

The ghost of Rush Limbaugh appears to be animating Woke feminist sports pundits

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If bulimia is an urgent mental-health issue, then serious psychotic and personality disorders probably qualify, too

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Some WICKED GOOD writing (NOT here, lol) that makes for an absolute MUST-READ!

RECKLESS RUNNING in Chicago: ANOTHER American record, INSANE pacing, EPIC blow-ups!!

Covid, 100 percent factually explained

Emily Sisson is gunning for the American record in Chicago, while Conner Mantz looks to continue a BYU tradition

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Midseason cross-country report

The MLB players who made baseball worth watching in the 2022 regular season

HOW I JINX MY OWN MEDIA SOURCES.

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Three Takeaways from Kevin (THE G.O.A.T.) Beck’s Training

I have made a fundamental error in judgment

Bill Gates has spent at least $319 million on manipulating the media

Meet Ryan Montgomery, running's archetypal grifter

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Early autumn grab bag

Running from the Facts: "MORE CITIUS PLZ!" edition

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Fatal car crashes jumped 10.5 percent and lethal overdoses 28.5 percent in the U.S. in 2021

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The EPIC 2022 Berlin Marathon: HUGE spoilers in subtitle, share with caution!!!

New Hampshire high-school cross-country: Now, then, and half a century ago

PayPal wipes out a new round of accounts while servicing undisguised pedophiles

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"Acceptance" doesn't have to include treating gaslighting as activism or delusions as real

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Recap of the final five Diamond League meets

HOW I FEED MY HEAD.

Malcolm Gladwell continues farting into the bathtub of running ideas

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I lost nearly everything

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Averaging the men's and women's world records produces kickass men's times in every track and road event

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A new study of the impact of pregnancy on elite runners includes great info, but doesn't add much

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On geo-privacy, Strava, and safety

At this point in history, we should expect women runners to fully "recover" from giving birth

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Women's Running has supplanted comedians as the leading proponent of "What's the point of running?"

Succinct wisdom for runners is not yet extinct, even if sophistry for hypocrites is more popular than ever

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A short list of running workouts you've never done

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Abercrombie & Fitch stupidly deletes an ad featuring a fat woman in size-appropriate clothing

After a short-lived crackdown on ball-doctoring, MLB is allowing pitchers to cheat again

Five years later: Recalling my own reporting on the triumphantly dishonest pharmaceutical industry (intermission)

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Still stinking of creek, plus a book review

Following up on posts about diminishing road-race numbers

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Five years later: Recalling my own reporting on the triumphantly dishonest pharmaceutical industry (part 1)

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The running rags give a "YA NEVER KNOW!" to Dean Karnazes' "coyote attack" story two days after its exposure as a hoax

David Roche gets low marks again, this time for his lack of commitment and invocation of pseudo-physics

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Bill Maher's ongoing "fatphobia" exposes the government's absence of sincere covid-phobia

Meet the CIGNA 5K, another "big" event cut almost in half by the coronavirus circus

Alison Wade either wants no talk about Shelby Houlihan besides her own, thinks Houlihan didn't dope, or both

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Matt Taibbi on the relentless anxieties of parenthood

How Nike purchased at least one dim, pliant "journalist" and his ramshackle multimedia festival

Watch Rachel Maddow lie her ass off for two straight minutes

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If you're a habitual runner, what's your demand for quality mileage?

An example of psychotic vaccination policies and Wokism combining to cause serious harm

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Some of the top finishers at the 2022 Mt. Washington Road Race have some weird results profiles

World Athletics Championships notes: Wrap-up

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After Shelby Houlihan washes up in the results of a half-marathon, pro-cheating Alison Wade plays bully-by-proxy

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Ashley Paulson is a misdirection queen who has worked hard for the right to be mistrusted and scorned

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World Athletics Championships notes: Days 7 and 8

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World Athletics Championships notes: Days 5 and 6

World Athletics Championships notes: An interlude about bad rules

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World Athletics Championships notes: Day 4

World Athletics Championships notes: Days 1, 2, 3

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While pushing the value of elite-runner autonomy, the WaPo omits its biggest benefits

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Stacking handicaps

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The Bolder Boulder should either revive or scrap what's become of its professional race

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The most obscure Kenyan distance star of the twenty-first century

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The dog weeks of summer

Another review of David Roche's soggy, straight-to-compost word salad for Trail Runner

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Surprise! The Oregonian is publishing pro-Shelby Houlihan, pro-Nike propaganda

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Midpoint of 2022 perambulation update

The New York Times employs a babbling South Park character named Lindsay Crouse

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A prologue to a review of the U.S. National Outdoor Track and Field Championships

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The shock and awe of "feminists" over the demise of Roe v. Wade highlights their self-immolating priorities

It's time for everyone to ditch their PayPal accounts

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The media's plan to stylize Sha'Carri Richardson as a heroine is failing, so expect it to continue

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So many Larrys

I'm now more skilled at playing keyboards than running, though luckily I refuse to prove it

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A review of Trail Runner's "How to Run the Western States 100" by someone who has actually finished the race

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Never mind Ingebrigtsen vs. the ghost of Cram—the Bislett Games were a lesson in something else

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"Shaking the Tree" is the best song ever written

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Remember when running's "liberals" implored us* to focus on politics? What happened?

Counting calories is more pointless than even skeptics realize

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A ridiculously selective review of the weekend's cornucopia of footracing

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The New England High-School Championships are today (free livestream)

Last-minute heads-up: The Portland Track Festival

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The Domino's in Boulder seems to be operating in a post-closure state

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The image-management gymnastics performed by NBC's Prefontaine Classic broadcasters

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The New Hampshire Meet of Champions is today (with livestream link)

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If "female" has no firm meaning, then "We need more women coaches" is a meaningless demand

Shelby Houlihan's shitty excuses are bathing her defenders in the spreading stink

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The Colorado State Championships: 4A steals the distance show amid a weather-enforced intermission

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The Colorado High-School State Championships start tomorrow

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Gary Martin's beautiful 3:57.98 mile glows in the everlasting flame of the GOAT

2,000 days

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Kenny Moore was a uniquely influential figure who embodied the consciousness of footracing

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Seven is the new six

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So it's May, and spring track started a while ago

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Ross Tucker's analysis corrected multiple myths and misconceptions about the Houlihan case

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The non-reaction to Ross Tucker's analysis of the Shelby Houlihan decision underscores the running media's ignobility and irrelevance

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The Haidt of psychosocial absurdities

Just to crack the top five at the Boston Marathon, Americans have to overperform

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The latest attack by Women's Running on the patriarchy reaches new frontiers of moral bankruptcy

Sports stats post: Athletes in major sports are rapidly getting better

Rosie nearly scores a shorthanded goal

The four levels of recovery discipline in basic interval (repetition) workouts

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Appetite for destruction

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I was wrong about David Roche

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Running from the Facts: "Only harpies and lechers are entitled to free speech" edition

Five ways to liven up easy runs enabled by mobile technology

Lethal combat with rules represents the inevitable nadir of the human mammal

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Why I maintain a special distaste for gaslighting fools

Wokesters greet sincere efforts to engage them with silence, yet clamor for cancellations over April Fool's Day jokes

It may not be obvious anymore, but people who yap about running often go for runs

The truths inside Letsrun's April Fool's Day extravaganza

Women's Running continues to trumpet the dubious value of raw victimhood

Sonia O'Sullivan just wrote the most powerful advocacy piece for women athletes in years, and running's "feminists" are ignoring it

March 21, 1992: John Ngugi wins his fifth and final IAAF World Cross Country Championship

Flash update: Another wildfire in Boulder

Substack has an app

Running from the Facts: "Bullshit on a self-amplifying loop" edition

The Run 4 Boulder Strong 10K Remembrance Run in images and impressions

How to poorly evaluate the effect of superspikes in one easy tweet

Organized running has always been "funny," but it's now a humorless joke

I am the world's most cheerful neurotic

The continuing convergence of the 5K and the 10K at the world-class level

I sometimes send e-mails: The sequel

Running from the Facts: "If you want us to ignore the elephant in the room, stop yelling at it" edition

HOKA and other companies are gladly sponsoring a sociopathic hate show

Running from the Facts: "Roche clips" edition

Billy Summers, Jack Reacher, and the unprecedented value of literary escapism

Why the NHL's basic ranking system sucks

Women's Running continues shilling for a race-grifter

The CDC is withholding COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness data from the public

What makes athletes' bodies athletic is off-limits, yet their genitals remain an obsession

Whistling along the Colorado River, Part 3

The best of the NCAA has been an expanding club for years, despite losses to the pro ranks

The underappreciated costs of running faster than one-mile race pace

Whistling along the Colorado River, Part 2

The only innovation left is a banked outdoor track in a subterranean tunnel

Whistling along the Colorado River, Part 1

Colin Sahlman is the 13th U.S. high-schooler to run under four minutes for the mile

As a concerned ally of social justice

The fate of Tony Soprano (1959-?)

Another polite request concerning Covid-19 demands by misinformed public idiots

Running from the facts: "My rock bottom was when I caught myself at a nice dinner" edition

"Eugenics" is the latest scare-word pseudoliberals are using to deny reality

Keira D'Amato just enjoyed the highest training ROI in distance-running history

The endless pursuit

Flashback 35 years: An unplanned 23 in falling snow

The real Keira D'Amato story: Gaining 2:19 fitness on 8 miles a day

The three biggest takeaways from Keira D'Amato's 2:19:12

How would you spend your limited miles?

A brief clarification about fat people and vaccines

Please shut the fuck up about COVID-19, especially if you're fat and getting fatter

An administrative stir-fry, perhaps too generous with the cayenne

2001 Boston Marathon training log

Don't be Patton Oswalt

Did Kip Keino hand Marty Liquori the 1,500-meter win at the 1970 MLK Games?

A workout you'll like when it's over

Quitters, Inc.

Trans women are women, so...

Running from the Facts: "Getting used to the stench of the garbage trucks" edition