Success in sport today seems to lead to only one conclusion, drugs.
Ross Tucker of The Science of Sport website took a look at Bolt’s 19.59 effort in Lousanne over 200m, and how truly spectacular it was. According to Tucker, if you were to take his margin of victory of .82 seconds over 400m Olympic gold medalist LaShawn Merritt, and extrapolated the 4.2% margin of victory to an 800m race, Bolt would have won by five seconds. Picture a world-class race of all the top 800m runners
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“Olympic Battle” pits winter versus summer Olympians.
This Sunday marks the third year of the Subaru Vancouver International Triathlon. The event, held at the beautiful Spanish Banks and University of British Columbia Endowment Lands, will host a record 600 professional and amateur athletes from eight different countries racing either the half-Ironman distance (2 km swim, 90 km bike and 20 km run) or the shorter sprint event. Some of these athletes may be racing for the first time while others use the race as preparation for Ironman Canada or the legendary Ironman Hawaii. With the pro prize purse being $10,000, and the race being nationally televised on Rogers Sportsnet, the event has attracted a number of top international stars.
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CamelBak Better Bottle
A new study shows it’s not just what you drink that matters, but also what you drink from.
Past research has shown that athletes drink more and stay better hydrated when given access to a flavored sports drink than when provided with plain water. It has also been demonstrated that, in warm environments, athletes drink more and stay better hydrated when their drink is cold instead of warm. But does the type of bottle athletes drink from also affect the rate of fluid consumption?
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Written by: Kevin Beck
Learn how to minimize mental obstacles while training in order to maximize your training efforts.
Lint is a runner and triathlete with all the enthusiasm in the world, but at times his vigor is his own worst enemy. He sits at work and broods idly over the afternoon’s mile repeats, but then he fails to hit his target times and skips the last one or two reps. He sometimes rationalizes knocking a few miles off a planned 20-miler when he’s speeding along halfway through, figuring a fast 17- or 18-miler offers the same benefits as a slower, longer run.
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In my first two installments of this series, I didn’t give much love to Germany’s Timo Bracht. He sort of slipped my mind. After his performance at Ironman Germany last week, that won’t happen again. In a discussion of who has the best chances to take this year’s men’s race in Kona, Bracht needs to be included–preferably early on in that conversation. Yes, Frankfurt is a pretty fast race, but a sub 8-hour Ironman is a remarkable acheivement on any course. His 7:59:15 finish put him one minute ahead of Spaniard Eneko Llanos (#3 on the board) and four minutes in front of Macca (#2 on the board).
I was equally as impressed with Bracht’s countryman, Andreas Raelert. The former ITUer has some serious endurance. He finished mere seconds behind Macca in only his second Ironman race. I think both of the recent ITU-turned-Ironman guys (Raelert and Denmark’s Rasmus Henning) could podium if everything goes right for them.
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Jobless rates rise as marathon times drop.
Interesting study by the Wall Street Journal on the effect of high un-employment on runners success. I guess it does prove that if you want to get better you need to dedicate full-time to running. A little more proof that if you really want to excel you need to focus solely on running. Not good news for those of us that work full-time, but it does prove why professional runners have a decided edge over runners who need to work. Getting laid off may just be the thing your running career needed!
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Source: USATF
INDIANAPOLIS – Raevyn Rogers has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week following her record-setting performance at the 2009 USA Youth Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Rynearson Stadium on the campus of Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mich.
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A study conducted at Pepperdine University revealed that participants drank up to 24 percent more water with CamelBak reusable water bottles than with other reusable and disposable bottles tested. Dr. Holden MacRae, professor of sports medicine at Pepperdine University, conducted the first-of-its-kind study to test the effects of water bottle design on personal fluid consumption.
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Marine Corps Marathon
Washington, DC marathon offers new bird’s-eye view for runners.
The Marine Corps Marathon has teamed up with Harris Corporation to offer a unique three-dimensional map of the 2009 marathon course. Runners can use the map to get a visual of all the landmarks they will pass and help them plan their race. Along with three-dimensional renderings of Washington, DC landmarks, the virtual tour highlights mile markers, water stops and first aid stations.
For More: Marine Corps Marathon Virtual Tour
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Coach Greg McMillan talks to Matt Fitzgerald about his long term approach to coaching, how he developed his acclaimed McMillan Calculator and his position on high volume vs. high intensity training.
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USA Triathlon has selected 56 additional athletes to be members of Team USA for this September’s ITU Duathlon World Championship in Concord, N.C.
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Athletissima Lousanne Photo: Courtesy of Athletissima Lousanne
Jamaican world record holder records his second fastest time ever in 200m.
Rain looked to be the headline from Athletissima 2009 in Lousanne, Switzerland, however Jamaican sprinting sensation Usain Bolt changed that, running a winning time of 19.59 in the 200m. The race was delayed in hopes of clearing skies, but no such luck fell upon the home of the International Olympic Committee.
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Everyone in the industry seems to think I am in France for the Tour. Sadly, I am not. As they say in France, C’est la vie. But this technical editor is, however, on vacation in Switzerland, visiting my wife Donna Phelan, just as I did last year at TeamTBB camp in Leysin. It’s great seeing old friends (coach Brett Sutton and athletes Rebekah Keat, Lizbeth Kristensen and Erika Csomor), and all the new faces on the team. I brought my road bike and am excited to head out today after a day of jet lag sorting. I have some new stuff to test in a beautifully appropriate locale, the Swiss Alps.
And among the things we’ll see during the month-long saga? There’s a ton…
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Strictly optional.
As long as you consume enough carbs during the race, even skipping breakfast altogether won’t slow you down.
There is some evidence that a low- or moderate-glycemic index pre-exercise meal (that is, a meal whose carbohydrate content is absorbed relatively slowly) enhances endurance performance compared to a high-GI meal. But the glycemic index of a pre-exercise meal might not matter if carbohydrate is consumed during exercise.
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After a dismal showing in Beijing, new leadership should change tide.
It was like a bad dream as American fans watched both their men’s and women’s 4x100m relay teams drop batons in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A year later, newly appointed Director of Sport Performance Benita Fitzgerald Mosley vows the issues that plagued the Americans in Beijing are in the past.
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