Archive for September 2013
Inflammation- To stop or not to stop? What the current research says.
One of the recent themes of this blog has been rethinking the concept of damage being a bad thing. The traditional view has been that we need to avoid damage, whether it is muscle, tendon, or some biochemical change at the microscopic level. Recently, the paradigm has started to shift towards looking at damage not…
Read MoreState of the sport- Rescuing running from life support.
State of the sport- What our sport needs: While this is primarily a science and coaching blog, every once in a while it’s worth it to delve into the greater issues in the sport. After all, if there is no sport of track and field, then there is no room for coaches. Already in many…
Read MoreHow do you get to World Class? A glimpse using 5k data
In another life, I could see myself as a sabermetrics junkie. Some of you may be asking what in the heck that is. It’s essentially the use of statistics in sports, or in simpler terms think Moneyball. When I was younger and baseball was my sport of choice, I’d spend hours pouring through the stats…
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