Sitemap - 2023 - Beck of the Pack

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A rough outline of the year to come on Beck of the Pack, probably accurate within applicable limits

Three scenarios that would have generated universal derision ten years ago and have now been normalized by force

Taylor Swift is the perfect icon for lazy, dumb, unoriginal runners who somehow manage to be arrogant, overconfident attention-hounds

Afternoons with Janine, cont.

I discovered the value of polychromatic speed work through dumb luck specifically so that hunched-over, head-scratching saps like you could reap its benefits

The ghosts of Christmases past are too properly terrified of the present to accept c. 2023 haunting missions

David Roche and Zoe Rom are fulminating retards who, despite their unfortunate visibility, are the ones who represent a small, ugly part of the running community

Zionists are "the most narcissistic, demented people in our society" and its "biggest hypocrites"

The sadistic lie that destroyed cities and careers, balkanized America, and gave a legion of race-grifters the bleakest of perpetual gifts

I live in Colorado, have never voted Republican, still think Donald Trump is a pure con-man, and now fully intend to vote for Trump as a write-in candidate

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Malcolm Gladwell's impenetrable intellectual cowardice exemplifies shitlibs' breathtaking arrogance about their own cluelessness, with the Roche cult an archetypal example

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LIV!

Foot Locker Finals: 1984 vs. 2023, punctuated by a sour and stentorian (but not quite room-clearing) belch

The media's pimping of Mirna Valerio, while inevitable, completely undermines their own messages while spotlighting the industry's endemic race-grifting

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A repetition workout that doesn't technically require any rest intervals is probably best structured differently

Women's very-long-distance running made Camille Herron elite, not the other way around

Ecotone Peaks

David Roche et al. continue scaling the quality of Trail Runner's advice to the composition and expectations of the S.W.A.P. community (GUEST ANALYSIS)

A demonstration of why anyone who still believes or repeats White House claims about ANY of the U.S.-sponsored violence abroad is insane or personally corrupt

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Wherein value is extracted from a recycled Erin Strout article aimed at keeping flaccid runners soft

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Two weekend races determined a lot of American fates concerning the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials and Olympic marathons

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NXN: Addison Ritzenhein becomes national champion, but Niwot settles for #2 in a Colorado sweep of the girls' team medals

Michael Joyner's fight with Mayo Clinic authoritarians highlights why the only proper response to tone-policing is tone-deafness

An Allie Ostrander-S.W.A.P. allegiance was practically inevitable once Ostrander was suspended for a doping offense

Slight variations in training mileage between groups of marathon runners are irrelevant when every group is severely undertrained

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If human-caused global warming is as real and scary as running's chattering class claims it is, then mass marathons simply need to go

Fields set for NXN Nationals and solidifying for Foot Locker Nationals; Grevious dominates NXN Northeast, while Colorado's Meineke qualifies for both finals

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Cross-country is basically almost damned near done for the year, and the 2023 season may well have possibly marked the end of an era

Those dutifully following the "It's Thanksgiving, ergo I'm grateful" script should step aside and give hollowed-out human husks celebrating sobriety anniversaries this week center stage

Seven booze-free years: a case study in the rewards of health and personal stability prevailing over the costs of excessive clarity

A response to an unusually helpful comment to my post about Americans' compulsory support for Israel

Niwot girls fend of Air Academy as EIGHTH-GRADER wins NXN Southwest and Mountain Vista rebounds

The top two girls' XC teams in the country, both from Colorado, will finally meet for the first time this season tomorrow at NXN Southwest

The next time Dr. Eli David visits the U.S., may he awaken in a dumpster with a Rohypnol hangover and a Yasser Arafat candle jammed up his ass

Chasing coyotes is best done in a trancelike state and while flirting with the commission of federal crimes

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The river of shit from the distaff running-media is overflowing its dildo-strewn banks. Should we bother building levees or just enjoy the toxic flood?

2023 New England High-School Championships video links, plus spoilers buried so far below these videos that it's your own fault if they actually spoil a damn thing

New Englands: Champlain Valley's girls lead an unusually vicious horde of Vermonsters, but Oyster River (N.H.) has MASSIVE momentum

In advance of the New England Championships in Maine, the Bangor Daily News publishes a letter from a female high-school runner defending the ruination of her own sport

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner in economics, is either innumerate or a flaming asshole who should be dismembered by a mob of meth-crazed hobos. Which is it?

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Outside publishes a drug ad by a medically atypical, disingenuous author disguised as a "running is no panacea" advisory

Road running is too purposefully overloaded with cretins and freaks to even follow, much less treat as a sport

New Hampshire Meet of Champions mini-preview

In advance of the obsolete annual parade through the five beleaguered boroughs, the media have doubled down on glorifying reality-averse flabbermouths

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If you're a regular runner but competitively rusty, how would you most likely screw up a race you entered tomorrow?

Rusty Cofrin, longtime Concord cross-country coach, has died

Time for a break from writing, maybe a permanent one

The Colorado and New Hampshire state meets are in six days

The uptake of fresh injectable mRNA has been dismally low, suggesting that pollsters, poll respondents, or both were lying last month

A short list of "anti-censorship" voices who have revealed themselves as liars and grifters at the worst possible time

Another showboating adolescent male who sucks at running infects a girls' cross-country team, this time in Maine

World Athletics has banned Russian athletes because of their murderous president, yet for two decades has hosted meets in Qatar, a den for Hamas terrorists, and lets Israelis compete

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The McKirdy Micro Marathon #2 produced 35 men's U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying times. How small is still too large to be considered tiny?

It's exciting that two of the top five girls' teams in the country will meet at their own state championship. It's too bad #1 is in the same state and will face neither squad at the champs

The first thing I ever watched on live TV in school was a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

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American tech-platform owners are unlikely to tell the speech-fascists at the European Union to suck a fat one and swallow the resulting spew. Will Americans care?

Why is the medium-long run so valuable?

No one should ever watch any war videos

Runner's World unloaded the shittiest article exceeding 5,000 words in the history of the genre last Friday

Americans are nothing but targets of junk from the media, food-makers, and pharma, all of which are in morbid co-collaboration

I expect to feel creeky all winter

The Chicago results highlight how problematic the Olympic Marathon qualifying standard is for American men

The Chikiptum Marathon is upon us

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Why would athletes convinced that a technological innovation offers an unfair advantage EVER use that innovation in competition, rules notwithstanding?

The Washington Post celebrates a woman who openly doped her way a 2:51 marathon as a game-changer

LATOYA SNELL: Either admit your lazy ass sucks and shut your damn mouth, or peddle your tiresome trash-talk elsewhere

Tracksmith BACKS DOWN, apologizes, and gets SLAMMED ANYWAY by the same DERANGED WHINERS who bullied it into deleting its "BQ shirts here" post

The NFL might as well consist of 32 identical teams

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Tracksmith proposes the radical idea that some runners are faster than others, triggering an army of lazy softies and neurotic wretches to blubber and jiggle in wounded fury

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Tempo runs, continued

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We should mask up for exactly half of our outdoor runs. Here's how I became a believer.

U.S. #1 (or #2) Niwot girls sweep top five places at Desert Twilight

The Washington Post glorifies another defiantly dishonest white female American distance runner

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Dauwalter vs. Herron poll results

A newsletter edition structurally resembling a newsletter, even if the items are randomly chosen hoorays, gripes, brain farts, and other products of cognitive bulimia

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Tigst Assefa's 2:11:53 in Berlin is both incredible and not at all shocking

The 2023 Manchester Invitational: Byron Grevious snags Derryfield Park record as Vermonters and prep-schoolers beat up on New Hampshire kids

Biden administration, MSM confirm government-media fusion in first openly collaborative effort

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Runner SMASHES and BLOODIES FACE in fall; says "We get through this stuff," then CRUSHES previous best cross-country performance--and disbelieves INCREDIBLE result

What if the entire effect of "super" racing shoes was increasing stride length by one inch?

Cross-country is well underway is Colorado: The #8-ranked girls' team in the U.S. has already raced #4 and #1, and the results were devastating

iRunFar's attempt to flatter Zoe Rom is instead a detailed explanation of why she sucks at her job and should quit being an editor

What my own "tempo runs" typically looked like

Alison Wade gives another "let the poor girl DOPE!" seminar, this time on behalf of protégé-of-scumbags Addy Wiley

POLL: Which is more impressive, Camille Herron's 48-hour world record or Courtney Dauwalter's summer hat-trick?

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Joe Biden will probably be forced to step down by the end of the month, if he survives until then

With the new jab rollout, Boulder County Health deletes it page containing lies about covid vaccine safety and testing and links to the same lies on the CDC website instead

BREAKING: Woman in trucker hat sets new city-wide mark for the most hideously self-absorbed public act by a young Boulder mother

Runner's World has incidentally exposed more of the Roches' ignorance by replacing internally unpopular content with incoherent piffle

Nikki Hiltz remains the most prominent ingrown hair on professional track's boil-covered, suppurating buttocks

Jakob Ingebrigtsen, though necessarily something of a punk, will probably break at least two more and as many as four more outdoor world records

"Everyone's watches lost GPS in the woods so our paces were all off"

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Referring to Courtney Dauwalter's body as "revolting" was not Trail Runner's most dubious editorial choice last week

"It truly amazes me the level of stupidity of triathletes," complains an amazingly stupid triathlete to other dumbly nodding triathletes

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COVID is BACK, baby! To protect yourself, avoid the over-"vaccinated," ESPECIALLY the fat ones—their septic bodies and their badly enfeebled immune systems

Moral and physical cripple Tammy Duckworth should be yanked from her wheelchair and heaved headfirst into Lake Michigan

The CDC held a conference in April that turned into a covid-spreading event, then lied about the data that emerged

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A plea for attention from squad of ultrarunners combines unfounded gripes with bad marketing while revealing how serious the industry's "diversity" chatter really is

Runner's World's article about a healthy 24-year-old male suffering cardiac arrest and not mentioning the jabs is standard clickbait; the collective response is the most disheartening part

Everyone in GoFundMe's upper management deserves to be robbed at gunpoint and invited to negotiate in hysterical falsetto voices for their craven, felonious lives

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A “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was in fact a pandemic of the newly penetrated, with an "echo pandemic" from the same source still proceeding unmolested

The CDC admits that the "vaccinated" are more likely to get covid while advising people to get yet another untested booster

Israel, via GoFundMe, "freezes" over $90,000 of The Grayzone's money in an effort to silence uncooperative Jewish reporters

Alison Desir should be lashing out at the whiteness and microaggressions of Women's Running any day now

Boulder County Health ends covid call-center after one federal C-19 stream dries up; keeps pushing shots, masking, fear, and stupidity

Ed Dowd on the Maui fiasco and the looming implications of the skyrocketing number of disability claims

"Formula Kersee" has been the recipe for a foot-long turd sandwich in 2023

Allie Ostrander's four-month ban for a masking agent detected in an OOC test was levied soon after she signed with Kilian Jornet's gear company NNormal

More evidence that the subset of trail runners raised in McMansions and subdivisions are among the most annoying human beings alive

A short seminar for anyone still denying the level of morbidity and mortality induced by the covid shots

The Washington Post isn't the only outlet STILL pushing the idea OBVIOUS doper Shelby Houlihan was SHAFTED

Anthony Fauci, who stands alone among America's roster of murderous grifters despite ferocious competition, just offered the nation an on-off intelligence test

Outside deserves recognition for its covid coverage, which was supremely ignorant, self-contradictory, destructive, and perfectly tailored for its shitlib-snowflake audience

If another Cormac McCarthy comes along, the world may never learn of his (or her) greatness

A basic heuristic for determining whether a medical intervention is dangerous

If mother-of-one Faith Kipyegon is this good at 29, just wait until she's over 35 and multiparous

Ron Clarke is among the few all-time great 5K and 10K runners who would still be competitive in 2023

Barry Bonds using as many drugs as he could, choosing the advisor he did, and being poked by just the right IRS prick created the most revealing and enduring sports-doping drama of all time

The 2023 World Champs are a lot more interesting if you pretend that Women's Running's daily updates are accurate

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What a raccoon told me is mostly true, according to sources

The Washington Post giving Shelby Houlihan's dirty anus an inelegant but thorough tongue-job is not surprising

"As an individual, I am not awesome at sustainability," admits "Becoming a Sustainable Runner" author Zoe Rom (in an interview commissioned by Zoe Rom)

Sperm-producer Rachel Levine calling women "egg-producers" is dickish, but sensible; an unhealthy and inhumane heap of volitional surgical mayhem leading Health and Human Services, perhaps less so

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A visitor from the 1980s would assume everyone today has friends weathering either massive crises or devastating loneliness and demand to be returned the age of tech-geek Luddites

Those who detest doing very easy runs in extreme heat are at increased risk of needing an attitude adjustment

Negotiating Trail Runner's UTMB coverage is a serpentine up-and-down journey in itself

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How high can Ugandan runners rise compared to their neighbors? And how much co-dominance would be too much?

"How To Thrive in a Competitive Mountain Town" is Trail Runner's beautifully oblivious paean to modern narcissism

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Blaring, overconfident retard and "Buddhist" Waylon Lewis is running for Boulder City Council

Dirty Bobby Kersee's group isn't quite having the year its coach and its fans were hoping for

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The Boulder County Board of Health consists entirely of medical retards and proven grifters, among them a CIGNA rep, a pharma consultant, and a chubby weatherman

Jennifer Acker responds, albeit only by establishing anew that Runner's World is staffed by lazy pinheads

The level of structure your marathon buildup requires is mostly a function of your experience and psychology

Area woman appears irritated after unplanned boob-surfing episode, witnesses say

Slobbering race-grifters like Emilia Benton and Alison Desir are worried that running companies' handouts are tapering off

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Boulder County Public Health now has one more rambling message from a science-denier to deal with

The 2023 Pearl Street Mile

Ghosts of long-dead running-banter have surfaced, albeit with little fanfare

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Raise your marathon plateau

Election denial has long been a bipartisan fetish within the American ruling class

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Starting every June or so, generally trustworthy marathon-training advice starts to fail thousands of fit and motivated runners

About those alleged aliens

Eighties music is largely crap despite its zany persistence, but one band central to the era stood far above the rest

A prequel to my letter to Boulder County Public Health officials

Filthy-rich 80-year-olds still intent on making more money are announcing what unconditionally horrible people they are

The Mile High Mile ascended to multiple new levels last night

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Runner's World has now deleted my author page, but the cowards responsible still aren't responding to my questions

Inside Tracker's testimonials and claims to expertise reveal that the service does nothing of practical value

The only reason we learned about Bronny James's heart attack is that his father is famous; plenty of young people have been "mysteriously" falling out since 2021

In one tweet, Ellie Pell demonstrates why the Roche-Rom-Levitt axis of white-dimwit privilege makes trail running appear more radioactive than it is

Should the New York Times building be leveled by explosives, or should we wait for a UFO to do the job?

What's the proper response when someone breaks a national record set by a currently suspended athlete?

From the outside, the human circus of lying, stealing, and shitting explosively on everything of value looks more vain, stupid, and pointless every day

I will not stop re-aggravating the same running-related boo-boo until the sun finally engulfs Earth

Greta Thunberg is herself a farting cow whose toxic verbal effluvia should be reduced or eliminated

By far the most conclusive evidence that the covid mRNA shots were broadly and uniquely lethal

An idea for a rainy day

The Daily Wire and scumbags like Dennis Prager are not the answer to Wokism

Zoe Rom is the latest distaff hypocrite to grace the cover of a book aimed at shallow-minded, complacent joggers

At the same time well-meaning healthcare workers have been tricked or forced to lie by Fauci, Inc., Wokish surgeons remain free to mangle and sterilize children

Recapturing the origins of my devotion to running using a virtual trip through time and space

Options for "Assuming I find a reason to bother" rust-buster track sessions

Why are the U.S., the U.K., Ukraine, and Israel not banned from the World Athletics Championships?

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The rate of injuries caused the mRNA shots varied wildly by production batch

The U.S. government's three preferred dispositions for its citizens are consumer, cannon-fodder, and corpse

The entire outcry against the SCOTUS affirmative-action decision, summarized in one picture

Runner's World "editor" Jennifer Acker is not just a coward but completely inept at everything her job once required

USATF Nationals wrap-up: U.S. distance squads for Worlds still not solidified, men's 5,000 meters features 4,000-meter warm-up jog

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Caster Semenya should retire, shut up, and disappear from public view

Ashley Paulson SMASHES her own Badwater 135 record in winning the race outright; last year's doubters are SILENT

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Empowering the stationary mobile device

The first two days of the USA Championships offered no major surprises, including the myriad shortcomings of Runnerspace

Remaining moored in the flood of nonsense, a deluge that includes the attempted normalization of lunacies that can't be hidden or camouflaged

America, F#ck Yeah!

How will Athing Mu fare in the 1,500 meters at USA Nationals?

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The 2023 U.S.A. Championships get underway today

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Keira D'Amato, 38, breaks another American record despite sparse training and doggedly goofy Strava punsmanship

Runner's World's buttressing of Shelby Houlihan is disgusting, but not surprising

When reviewing the day, please avoid temporal references like "today," "later," and other confusing abstractions

The relative progression of the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter world records in the EPO era

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Internecine battles between high-ranking Wokish bozos offer normies more than just tawdriness and schadenfreude

Guest snark: How accurate, and meaningful, were David Roche's WSER predictions?

Has the improvement trajectory of elite U.S. high-schoolers mimicked that of the pros?

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Running does indeed have a racism problem, all of it traceable to a single relentless brain-dead social arsonist

"We need more scientific research on women runners" is an inane refrain for at least three reasons

None of the three world records set at the Meeting de Paris were as impressive as the Bislett Games men's 5,000 meters

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The best female distance runners alive would win most U.S. ultramarathons outright

How to properly navigate a bullshit-laden, truth-concealing Internet

Humans are nothing more than roving pincushions and pillboxes in the U.S. "healthcare" system

Faggots like Eric Budd are going to either start answering for their garbage-output or paying a psychological price for it

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On being a member of a political dynasty

The Mount Washington Road Race should institute doping controls, just to be on the safe side

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Aidan Cox runs 8:50.45 for 2M for 5th at New Balance Nationals after leading Coe-Brown to a silver in the 4 × mile

How is Athing Mu supposed to be sharp for U.S. Nationals in an unfamiliar event when she's been idle for a year?

Allyson Felix and others only now making a note of black maternal mortality rates are hypocrites and fools

EPO has scuttled once-trustworthy event-to-event performance comparisons

The California Legislature is under the complete control of deranged sexual perverts

It is simply a fact that everyone associated with the Roche cult is annoying beyond conventional belief

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The Wall Street Journal is in on the running gags, too

Thinning the herd via mRNA injections is probably going better than the project managers expected

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A blurt about recent predictions, both declared and narrowly avoided

A round-up of general foolishness

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Faith Kipyegon's sub-3:50 is more impressive than Sifan Hassan's 10,000m-1,500m double

Seth Abramson, among history's oldest and most eloquent infants, exemplifies the purposeful death of the left

DOUBLE DRENCH

Running's "white supremacy" "problem" seems to have magically disappeared

"Pride Month" has been weaponized against everyone it's supposed to celebrate

New Hampshire Meet of Champions highlights

An Elliot/Ellen Page thought experiment

We* need to push back against bad people who interfere with our freedom, but we must also appropriately narrow our targets

Two local morons who lack the capacity to acknowledge, much less admit to, the dangerous stupidity of their covid claims

The 2023 Bolder Boulder

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New England kids have a variety of paths to the New England Championships

Although I advertise earnest intentions of terminating myself (and hence my writing) without notice, Substack may disappear before I do

The 2023 New Hampshire Divisional Championships featured six meets, all of which belonged to the Coe-Brown boys

The Nuggets are in their first NBA finals. The Celtics could be their opponent, but face formidable odds

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Sha'Carri Richardson gets lots of attention. How good is she really?

A non-thematic release characterized throughout by rudeness and reasonably smooth scene transitions

Confession time!

Colorado State Champs: Stutzman puts on a show, a nation-leading (sort of) 45.36, and a dramatic state record in the long relay

The rise of the relentlessly curt "critic" of persistently terse "grifters"

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Disliking your flaws doesn't make you a perfectionist, especially when you deny or embrace them

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Women's Running continues to push the "novelty" of over-35 superstars while offering all but the likeliest explanation

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Regular, goal-oriented runners may be less susceptible to "mass formation" than fake, former, or sporadic runners

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The Colorado State Championships are almost here

Where do figures about a shortage of women in ultrarunning come from and, if they're accurate, what do they imply?

Distance running's record in the area of anti-black racism remains remarkably unblemished

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Another blurt about numerical oddities in selected professional sports

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AS SUSPHINCTLY AS POSSIBLE UNDER THE CECUMSTANCES

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On the kindness of strangers...who live in tents alongside freeways

A preview of tonight's Track Fest, a state-recordish performance in the mile by Aidan [---], and a terse GNAC wrap-up

Boulder's "Blue Line" remains the city's defining element

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New Hampshire action: Just as the high-school scene heats up, an amazing collegiate season nears its denouement

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How to take a day off without kidding yourself

Tara Davis-Woodhall sidelined for a month for THC use

This is why Tucker Carlson was axed

Sizing up the Boston Marathon grifting circus

Quick follow-up to the Mulvaney post

The Dylan Mulvaney wars establish that virtue signaling and cancel culture are alive and well on the political right

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Nuggets from the weekend

The lay of the land

A pair of stray morsels of putative interest to scamper-happy minds

A short and conclusive experiment with ChatGPT

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A terse reflection on hate-bombing the wrong targets

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Landing with a soft thud

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The elite women's field at the 2023 Boston Marathon, like the event itself, is officially insane

Substack now has a brainfart interface called Notes

Early spring grab-bag, or grasp-bag

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An important qualification to a recent outburst about static political and philosophical stances

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So maybe this is the government's plan for dispensing of Substack and other inconveniences

Runners incapable of thinking for themselves should probably avoid enlisting dolts and scammers as surrogate thinkers

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I briefly became that pathetic guy whose otherwise barren refrigerator contained a single ancient packet of duck sauce. This is how I survived

The hapless human monkey, confident its technology spells immortality rather than doom, is masturbating to the death-spasms of civilization

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Eliud Kipchoge (the G.O.A.T.) is DEBUTING at the Boston Marathon at APPROXIMATELY 38 years old, compelling OUTSIZED DRAMA from OVEREXCITED pundits: WATCH

Running media aimed at women are fiercely determined to glorify rule-breakers and male deviants

Lying attention-hounds who spread hateful messages and dodge their critics should expect occasional bouts of fatigue, experts say

World Athletics in effect returns women's track and field competitions entirely to women

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Running's grievance-grifters unwittingly admit to their own scamming when their insatiable egos are fluffed

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Zane Robertson (13:13/27:33/2:08:19) just got eight years in the athletics cooler; his twin brother and training partner (13:15/27:30/2:08:26) just got nervous

Boulder County paid WEIRD local consultants to target "vaccine-hesitant" HISPANIC parents, pushing for kids 11 AND UNDER to get mRNA-jabbed

Addenda (including a correction) to the Kara Goucher book-revelations post

The incomprehensible ferocity of Japanese marathon running

Emilia Benton—having been ratioed and smacked down—responds with a non-answer and dismisses legitimate questions as "trolling"

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Racist smear-princess Emilia Benton—another self-interested dimwit feigning "social justice" intentions—goes after Laz again

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MSNBC's Chris Hayes is a sick individual who should be stripped nude, hoisted up a flagpole, and riddled with bullets as small children point, giggle, and hurl fruit: What you need to know

The publication of Kara Goucher's book could serve as a turning point in professional running, but it won't

The winds of spring are gradually scattering my runs across the warming days

An illustration of how "trans-inclusion" voices are intentionally destructive to women's running

So anyway, the NCAA D-I Championships and two high-school national championships took place over the weekend

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A shallow dive into Katie Ledecky's profound dominance

The FDA and CDC are blatantly ignoring their own safety policies and even gaslighting public-health officials

The United States is a dictatorship: With legislators shredding the Bill of Rights, the government is the enemy of the American people (II)

The United States is a dictatorship: With legislators shredding the Bill of Rights, the government is the enemy of the American people (I)

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Jarrod Ottman shouldn't seem like a throwback or a radical outlier, yet he does

Trail Runner's (girl)boss—a BOGUS activist and a LAZY editor—SLAMS faux-feminism, claims one-percenter women are TOTALLY UNDERPAID

Trying to legislate and censor transgenderism out of existence is as dumb as lying about its attributes

WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER SCUM?!

MSNBC is worse than just a disinformation outlet

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Alicia Monson's 30:03.86 makes as much sense as anything

The New England High-School Indoor Championships are today at "The Reggie"

Here's what the media are blaming for the catastrophic rise in heart attacks

The sanctification of Nikki Hiltz's "nonbinary" status is only one of many reasons pro running is in the toilet

The Wokish people of running are hostile, cowardly, and ruthlessly stupid even by the standards of the faith

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How to deal with unruly or oblivious users of public spaces

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I am often told stories about events in which I played direct roles, and other frivolities

Lexical interlude: "Wokism" and "Wokish," explained

A longtime coach and a truly sweet man is gone, but impossible to forget

"Post-covid" jabs are already here, and they ensure another massive Pharma coup coupled to another equally massive public-health misadventure

Alison Wade's essay on John Babington emphasizes a major problem of coaching abuse: never knowing where the edges of trust end

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Two world track records, one old and one ancient, fell last week

2023 World Cross Country Championships review

Rage Against the War Machine in D.C. today (link to livestream)

Running as a series of charging stations and oases in life's sandstorms

The level of nonsense in the running media is largely structural, and isn't going anywhere until more people reject it

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Weekend results: Championships. Invitationals! GAMES!

A new way to demonstrate the bottomless inanity of David Roche

Scholastic track championships on a goshdarned Sunday: NHIAA and GNAC (the other one)

Everything I own is irreplaceable

Recent mea culpas by the media are obligatory, token concessions in an ongoing flood of authoritarian lies

Oppressive temperatures are perfect for running when you want, but do not need, a day off from running

Thirty-five years, more or less

Sociopathic running impostor becomes fodder for Wokish scholarship

The New Balance Indoor Grand Prix comes to Boston's latest supertrack today

Dozens of former University of Colorado runners express disgust at Runner's World's conviction of the program

Ross Tucker on Eliud Kipchoge's training

How many other NCAA records will Katelyn Tuohy break?

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The pain in the pleasure in the pain

The New York Times' deteriorating position on childhood obesity scales with its surrender to advertising interests and Wokish lunacies

Outside Online is pushing outright lies about covid shots and myocarditis

The anatomy of a corporate-media "fact-check"

Terrier Classic Day One: 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter American records, fifteen sub-four miles

Runner's World, for whatever strange reason, suggests that cheating is wrong

The Boston Marathon adds another dingbat policy to its continually deteriorating event

Nikki Hiltz needs to get real about the malicious power of online mobs

Indoor track notes and reflections

Some Lauren Fleshman comments

Childhood rituals are an invaluable and eternal commodity

Strava is begging the world to prove that it can live without Strava

Runner's World glorifies body-composition analysis, then categorically condemns it the next day

Romping through disconnect

Eliud Kipchoge is finally putting himself in a great position to lose a marathon

Getting and feeling tired is often the point

The evolution of a small component of a huge and dangerous lie

Outside, which owns most of the niche fitness pubs still in business, will be gone by 2025 at this rate

A DANGEROUSLY nice January day for a run

The dumbest loudmouths in running choose to cripple themselves further by embracing disinformation

Images only (#119)

Highlights of the 2023 running calendar

Brief addendum to this morning's Alano Club post

Images only (#118)

Lockdowns killed or debilitated millions of people who relied on "recovery" gatherings

Malcolm Gladwell is not merely a pseudo-intellectual but an anti-intellectual corporatist hack

The last run of the year recapitulated the state of my and local running these days