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By Labor Day, a tempo run should feel like a nap in a hammock on a sunny autumn day after multiple bong hits and a few scoops of Xanax-infused Cheez Whiz

The Democratic Party has in effect handed Donald Trump the presidency by broadcasting and then doubling down on its outright contempt for thinking Americans

IT'S OFFICIAL: The most remarkable track athlete of the 2024 indoor season at any level was probably Quincy Wilson

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For weeks, I've been posting unopposed and unmonitored. Here's what that means for you.

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Runner's World's proud self-shaming now includes presenting math-challenged physiobabble specialist David Roche as an expert, at least with needles

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The "self-help" group the corporate media would like to tell us about

Unhealthy, deluded influencer gets real and feels better; NY Times sides with the followers she "betrayed"

How reliable are "anti-fitness" reporters generally? The results may literally not shock you

"Retire at 70" Ben Shapiro has been a lying neocon ferret of great privilege his entire life, but he could at least get his math right

Nikki Hiltz, not satisfied with promoting the eugenics-based sterilization of children, is now lying about the death of a "nonbinary" teenager

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Mo Katir's price for an inability to use Google Maps was deliciously steep for the genre

Zoe Rom cannot perform basic math, let alone determine strength of causality or anything else. Hence the need for her "data analysis" series

On the absolute and unperishable purity of dogs (and the alert people they mentor)

Molly Mirhashem's promotion to editorial director of Outside explains how an already worthless set of e-publications managed to sink even lower

CNN and MSNBC are now trying to extinguish memers, the Babylon Bee, and other would-be parodists through admirably well-executed competitive inhibition

Latoya Snell joins the F*CK WHITE LIVES movement

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Martinus Evans vs. the Slow AF Running Club is another indicator of what a dank garbage-fest the running industry has become

Erin Strout comes out in support of Donald Trump's pro-science feminist platform

In distance running, unlike other sports, you really can count on bringing whatever your best game is to your competition of choice

Both a 30-year-old 1,000-meter state record and one of the three boys chasing it tumbled this weekend at the New England Indoor Championships

Various members of the Boulder City Council deserve to experience extreme and prolonged personal misfortune, hunger, shame, and other classic bereavements

People keep scrapbooks, Vol. 3

Google's Gemini AI is creating false and brutal histories about unpopular—i.e., competent and unflappable—journalists (and who knows who and what else)

The man who raped and killed Laken Riley was a brown illegal immigrant, so running outlets are downplaying or ignoring the crime

The most blatant example yet of climate hypocrisy in this unsustainable version of citizen distance running

Megan Roche isn't just a dumb coach who reps the Aspen Institute, she's a one-woman covid horror-show (Part II)

Megan Roche isn't just a dumb coach who reps the Aspen Institute, she's a one-woman covid horror-show (Part I)

Gemini AI is an electronic blitz of dodgy, filibustering wokebots

A brief graphical encyclopedia of memorable sportspeople and their best moments

Another celebration of an unhealthy, gibbering Afroscammer by another alarmingly bimbotic white chick

Runner's World UK's Kate Carter refuses to resign despite being a proven cheater. Where exactly is her editor-in-chief, Andy "A-Dik" Dixon?

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I was feeling listless and writing-averse. So I made a list, solving the first problem while exacerbating the second

Unrepentant, wrinkly dopers Beth McKenzie and Ashley Paulson clean up in separate ultras over the weekend

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Recalling a pair of determined and serious track people from the days of disco and hair metal respectively

People keep scrapbooks, Vol. 2

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Trail Runner's editor takes a crack at independent publishers, accusing them of the very things that makes her incompetent and unsuitable for the industry

World marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum dies in a car crash in Kenya

FLASH UPDATE: That was the most memorable distance race ever run at a New Hampshire indoor state championship

New Hampshire Indoor State Championships livestream and previews (via N.H. Track and Field)

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A simple test to determine whether you have truly lost your mind (and assess the extent of the reversible damage)

A boy is favored to win the girls' high jump at the New Hampshire Indoor Championships, and a lawmaker responds by saying no one cares about the event anyway

Why would Runner's World fire someone from its editorial staff for brazen lying? This isn't the dark ages of publishing, when basic ethics and brainpower were oddly valued

The 4-3-2-1 Lap Step-Down

Although highlighting Erin Strout's unlikely cascade of self-administered boob-punches is instructive and comical, her ilk should be denied the illusion of their own competence

The New York Times goes full right-wing transphobic bigot in agreeing that the permanent sterilization of kids who can't give informed consent is, like, totally messed up

Amby Burfoot is correct: The U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials are both an alluring sporting spectacle and an increasingly obvious waste of America's (admittedly trivial) distance talent

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People keep scrapbooks, Vol. 1

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Diversity dimwit Emilia Benton applies a private version of mathematics to the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials women's field

"More work isn't the answer," advises Women's Running, this time using an "influencer" who shares a name with a leading asswipe manufacturer

Beloved liar, cheater, coward, and quitter Latoya Snell BAILS from ANOTHER race, collects ANOTHER sham medal, and belches out MORE nonsense from Scamtown

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While it's easy to be distracted by the Roche cult members' lack of courage, drive, intelligence, and integrity, raw masochism is what most strongly unifies these freaks

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Self-parodic anti-free-speech grifter Alex Berenson proudly takes another messy dump on his keyboard

Outside's lazy, fragile editors embrace ignorance and irresponsibility while blaming the world for their self-imposed anxieties and mental disarray

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Citizen running is a stew of vultures and venture-fabulists beclowning themselves in loosely shifting colonies of slop-hogs and the libtards who feed them

Events like the Western States 100-Miler may now start kindly telling DEI extortionists to take a long hike

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Trail Runner's editor-in-chief vows to remain a hypocritical, privileged imbecile who dismisses athletically, intellectually, morally, and creatively superior people as "trolls"

What’s The Real Story With Altitude Training?

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The IPCC and the Gates-Kerry-Gore axis of smug, jet-setting pseudoscience aren't interested in CO2 reduction. They're tyrannical zealots bent on reducing human thriving

Road Trip: Rono on the Road

Dropping acid: alactic speed workouts for runners

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Jesse Singal and Alex Berenson are post-prime, one-trick Substack ponies baring their biases and unreliability

Why the era of unedited, unresearched, unoriginal, unhelpful running content isn't for everyone

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Runner's World's ratlike editors zapping my stuff is less problematic than their publication of incoherent wordbursts by the likes of Emilia Benton (Part 1 of 2)

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My two New Year's resolutions