Last Sunday’s Real Simple Women’s Half Marathon was my fourth race at that distance. And it was my fourth best time. Yes, that’s me, trying to put a positive spin on a rather challenging day that came at the end of a very challenging training block that
Happy Friday! What's good? I'll have a longer essay on Monday about my half marathon – about the race and the (mostly) technology-free training block. But I did want to make one related observation: Sunday's race had over 8200 finishers, up from 5900 the year
Welcome to Episode 5 — I think it's 5 — of the Second Breakfast podcast. I have to say, I am not very good at this whole podcasting thing. I should apologize in advance for the quality of the sound in this one. And today's guest — Amy Collier
I didn't write anything last week about the Humane AI Pin, a new device that's part of the so-called "AI gadget era" – a pairing of all these purported breakthroughs in AI software we're witnessing with a new generation of AI hardware. The
I don’t like the metaphor “food is fuel,” but damn, it's pervasive in sports and sports nutrition. Yes, of course. We need to eat in order to live. But we are not machines, and what we eat cannot be reduced to the “energy” it gives us. Some
Monday was the Boston Marathon. Hellen Obiri defended her title, winning the race for the second year in a row. She outsprinted fellow Kenyan Sharon Lokedi down the final stretch, winning in 2:27:37. Edna Kiplagat – age 44!! – came in third. And shout-out to one of my favorite masters
I walk a lot. I mean, I'm a New Yorker now, and here we walk significantly more than other Americans elsewhere do (which isn't necessarily saying much as Americans in general walk very little -- far far less than the residents in other industrialized countries). Poppy
I'm about two weeks out from my half marathon. My training is "peaking" – ostensibly. On Sunday, I'll do my longest and hardest long run before my race: 14 miles – two loops of Central Park. That's the course for the race, and if
"Were 'In the Penal Colony' to be written today, Kafka could only be speaking of an exercise machine. Instead of the sentence to be tattooed on its victims, the machine would inscribe lines of numbers. So many calories, so many miles, so many watts, so many laps.
Happy Friday! What's good? Lots of "men's fitness" stories timed with the release of the Road House remake (which I watched this week, I'll admit. The first hour is okay, and I wasn't mad; didn't feel that Patrick
Last Wednesday's lifting session was rough. I balked on the top weight in my deadlifts: a weight I'd easily lifted for 3 sets of 3 reps the week before wouldn't budge more than an inch from the floor. I tried to calm down and
Last Friday, Jasmin Paris became the first woman to finish the 2024 Barkley Marathons – it's an incredible achievement for anyone to finish the race which is designed to be unfair, if not impossible. The course, in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee, varies from year to year, but
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Second Breakfast podcast. At the outset I should apologize for the delay in getting this edited and out the door. Indeed, our guest today Mike Caulfield and I recorded this back in January. Mike has worked for the past few years at the University
I spent much of last Sunday in Times Square, leading a group of 100 volunteers handing out water and Gatorade to the 27,000 runners in the NYC Half Marathon. We were stationed just beyond Mile 11, about ten blocks from Central Park – close to the finish, but – if you&
I had a nice little editorial calendar pulled together, with a plan for what to write and when to publish, that would take me all the way through the end of April. But then I went and decided to lean fully into my Luddite tendencies, ditching my Garmin and upending
In 2012, in a Wired article on "The Stanford Education Experiment [that] Could Change Higher Education Forever," Sebastian Thrun – then still a Stanford professor and a Google engineer – pronounced that, in fifty years time, there would only be ten universities left in the world and that his online
