Sitemap - 2023 - A discontinued waste of typing
A rough outline of the year to come on Beck of the Pack, probably accurate within applicable limits
Zionists are "the most narcissistic, demented people in our society" and its "biggest hypocrites"
Women's very-long-distance running made Camille Herron elite, not the other way around
Wherein value is extracted from a recycled Erin Strout article aimed at keeping flaccid runners soft
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
New Hampshire Meet of Champions mini-preview
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 first thing I ever watched on live TV in school was a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
Why is the medium-long run so valuable?
No one should ever watch any war videos
I expect to feel creeky all winter
The Chikiptum Marathon is upon us
The Washington Post celebrates a woman who openly doped her way a 2:51 marathon as a game-changer
The NFL might as well consist of 32 identical teams
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
Dauwalter vs. Herron poll results
Tigst Assefa's 2:11:53 in Berlin is both incredible and not at all shocking
Biden administration, MSM confirm government-media fusion in first openly collaborative effort
What if the entire effect of "super" racing shoes was increasing stride length by one inch?
What my own "tempo runs" typically looked like
Joe Biden will probably be forced to step down by the end of the month, if he survives until then
"Everyone's watches lost GPS in the woods so our paces were all off"
"Formula Kersee" has been the recipe for a foot-long turd sandwich in 2023
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
What a raccoon told me is mostly true, according to sources
Negotiating Trail Runner's UTMB coverage is a serpentine up-and-down journey in itself
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
Area woman appears irritated after unplanned boob-surfing episode, witnesses say
Boulder County Public Health now has one more rambling message from a science-denier to deal with
Ghosts of long-dead running-banter have surfaced, albeit with little fanfare
Election denial has long been a bipartisan fetish within the American ruling class
A prequel to my letter to Boulder County Public Health officials
The Mile High Mile ascended to multiple new levels last night
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
The Daily Wire and scumbags like Dennis Prager are not the answer to Wokism
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?
The rate of injuries caused the mRNA shots varied wildly by production batch
The entire outcry against the SCOTUS affirmative-action decision, summarized in one picture
Caster Semenya should retire, shut up, and disappear from public view
Empowering the stationary mobile device
How will Athing Mu fare in the 1,500 meters at USA Nationals?
The 2023 U.S.A. Championships get underway today
Runner's World's buttressing of Shelby Houlihan is disgusting, but not surprising
The relative progression of the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter world records in the EPO era
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?
"We need more scientific research on women runners" is an inane refrain for at least three reasons
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
On being a member of a political dynasty
The Mount Washington Road Race should institute doping controls, just to be on the safe side
EPO has scuttled once-trustworthy event-to-event performance comparisons
The California Legislature is under the complete control of deranged sexual perverts
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
A blurt about recent predictions, both declared and narrowly avoided
A round-up of general foolishness
Faith Kipyegon's sub-3:50 is more impressive than Sifan Hassan's 10,000m-1,500m double
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
New England kids have a variety of paths to the New England Championships
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
The rise of the relentlessly curt "critic" of persistently terse "grifters"
Disliking your flaws doesn't make you a perfectionist, especially when you deny or embrace them
The Colorado State Championships are almost here
Distance running's record in the area of anti-black racism remains remarkably unblemished
Another blurt about numerical oddities in selected professional sports
AS SUSPHINCTLY AS POSSIBLE UNDER THE CECUMSTANCES
On the kindness of strangers...who live in tents alongside freeways
Boulder's "Blue Line" remains the city's defining element
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
A pair of stray morsels of putative interest to scamper-happy minds
A short and conclusive experiment with ChatGPT
A terse reflection on hate-bombing the wrong targets
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
An important qualification to a recent outburst about static political and philosophical stances
So maybe this is the government's plan for dispensing of Substack and other inconveniences
Running media aimed at women are fiercely determined to glorify rule-breakers and male deviants
World Athletics in effect returns women's track and field competitions entirely to women
Addenda (including a correction) to the Kara Goucher book-revelations post
The incomprehensible ferocity of Japanese marathon running
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
A shallow dive into Katie Ledecky's profound dominance
Jarrod Ottman shouldn't seem like a throwback or a radical outlier, yet he does
MSNBC is worse than just a disinformation outlet
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
How to deal with unruly or oblivious users of public spaces
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
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
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
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
Ross Tucker on Eliud Kipchoge's training
How many other NCAA records will Katelyn Tuohy break?
The pain in the pleasure in the pain
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
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
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
A DANGEROUSLY nice January day for a run
The dumbest loudmouths in running choose to cripple themselves further by embracing disinformation
Highlights of the 2023 running calendar
Brief addendum to this morning's Alano Club post
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