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
I had something else planned for today – I have two podcast episodes recorded but unedited. So the key word in that first sentence is “planned,” and as things are still… not... great for me mentally right now, I did not manage to weave any straw into gold for you today.
Happy Friday! What’s good? I’m back to running, although at a lower volume than usual, trying to slowly work my way back up to my normal mileage (without going back to wearing a watch, thank you very much). As it stands, I’m experiencing more cardiovascular struggle than
On Saturday, I ran. On Sunday, I raced. (It wasn’t, as climbers would say, a “full send." “I ran in a race” is perhaps a more accurate phrasing.) It felt like a huge accomplishment to get out there, to be out there again. I was overjoyed to be
Happy Friday! What's good? I am doing a bit better than last week, thanks for asking, although I haven't written anything and, more shockingly perhaps, haven't run all week. This is the first time since I started running (in 2022) that I have missed
Happy Friday. What's good? Not me. I am not good. Indeed, I almost wrote to you this morning to tell you there'd be no newsletter today or Monday. I'm having a very hard time with everything right now – that collision a few weeks ago
Welcome to part 3 of my look at heart rate monitors — the history, the practices, the science, and the marketing of this aspect of fitness tracking. I decided to see a physical therapist last week as, a week after my "fall," I was still in pain. I wanted
Happy Friday! What’s good? My training, I will say, has been very good lately; I’m balancing the preparations for my spring half marathon with my powerlifting — something that, in the past, I’ve found quite hard to do. When I ramp up the running, my ability to add