Runner's Web Digest - May 23, 2003

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Sports Nutrition: Snack smart - Tips for Triathlete's On the Go Lifestyle is
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This week's poll is: "Is Paula Radcliffe's 2:15:25 marathon run the best ever
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The previous poll was: "Should hypoxic training be banned?"
Some athletes who shun performance-enhancing drugs claim the only way they can
compete on a field made uneven by illegal doping is to use hypoxic tents and
other training devices that manipulate the air they breathe.
More...on Hypoxic Training:
http://www.hypoxictent.com/index.html

The results at publication time were:
Yes 27
No 31
No opinion, don't care... 7
Total Votes: 65

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Book of the Week: Running Past 50
Many middle aged runners face a common problem: the personal challenge and inner
rewards that were once powerful motives driving their running program have faded
with time. What started as an invigorating ritual that refreshed the body and
spirit has become too familiar and oftentimes monotonous.
Running Past 50 was written to remedy this problem and restore the fun and
meaning to running. Author Rich Benyo-who is editor of Marathon & Beyond, a
former executive editor of Runner's World, and a devoted runner himself-shows
runners how to reinvent their running so that the years after 50 can be the best
in their careers.
Buy the book at:
http://www.humankinetics.com/products/showproduct.cfm?associate=880&isbn=0880117\
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The FiveStar Site of the Week:
The FiveStar Site of the Week for next week is: Kajsa Bergqvist.
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Olympian and is the European indoor record holder.
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This Weeks News:

Bodywork - The Performance Diet:
Harvest of Champions
If mom had told you what fruits and veggies can do for your game, maybe you
would've listened. But it's not too late.
It took USA Cycling-certified coach Adam Hodges Myerson more than a decade to
figure out what had been preventing him from becoming a pro bike racer: his
diet. Food, he discovered, should be used as both fuel and good medicine to
speed recovery and keep you healthy. Currently heading up a coaching service
called Cycle-Smart, based in Northampton, Massachusetts, Myerson began his
amateur racing career by racking up impressive results in short order: victories
at the 1990 Fitchburg Criterium in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and later that year
against the pros at the Marblehead Road Race. At his peak, in 1995, he finished
eighth at the National Criterium Championships, riding full-time for Team
HealthShare. But in those days, he knew little about nutrition beyond
carbo-loading. "I was subsisting on energy bars and peanut butter and Minute
Rice and ramen," Myerson says. And each year, recurring colds and flu kept
halting his training for weeks at a time. "If you miss a week of training four
times a season," he says, "you're simply not going to achieve your potential."
More...from Outside Magazine at:
http://outsideonline.com/outside/bodywork/200303/200303_bodywork_1.html



What exactly happens inside your body when you taper - and why you should do it
more often:
Most endurance athletes recognize that tapering before competitions is a good
idea, but few understand exactly why tapering has such a positive effect on
performance. Exercise scientists, too, have been at a loss about how tapering
works, and that is too bad. After all, if we knew exactly what happened
physiologically during a productive taper, we could 'shape' our tapers more
precisely to produce more of the positive changes we wanted. Physiologists first
became aware of the benefits of tapering in the 1970s, but at that time there
was little understanding of what was going on inside athletes' bodies as they
tapered. One of the first investigations to take a close look at the
physiological alterations associated with tapering was carried out by renowned
exercise scientist David Costill at Ball State University in the mid-1980s.
More...from Peak Performance Online at:
http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/0903.htm




Stretching - A ritual questioned:
by Frank Horwill
When, in 1980 during a lecture to the British Milers' Club, John Anderson,
National B.A.A.B. Coach for Scotland, and former mentor of Dave Bedford and Dave
Woodcroft (Both broke world records at 10k and 5k respectively), stated, "I do
not believe in stretching before training and competition," there was a gasp
from his audience. This was tantamount to heresy, some even thought it bordered
on idiocy. Many of the coaches present had been brought up through the Oxford
University athletics system, the coaching manual of which stated in very precise
terms how a warm up should proceed:-
Jog 1 - 2 miles.
Do suppling exercises (Arms).
Do stretching exercises (Legs).
Do strength exercises before training. Omit before competition
Do several strides of 150 yards in length, increasing speed every 50 yards.
After this edict there followed an observation - "Even if you do nothing else,
at least you've done something useful."
More...from the Serpentine Track Club at:
http://www.serpentine.org.uk/advice/coach/fh41.php



Does heart-rate tracking really help the everyday athlete?
Anyone who has ever climbed aboard a treadmill or elliptical trainer at a gym is
familiar with the little charts or electronic displays that provide information
about "maximum" or "target" heart rates.
The charts are supposed to tell you whether your workout is intense enough for
someone your age to build a healthy heart or burn off fat.
But now exercise physiologists say that information is flawed and irrelevant for
most gym rats.
The maximum heart formula has no scientific foundation, said Robert A. Robergs,
director of the exercise physiology laboratories at the University of New
Mexico. Rather, the formula for calculating one's maximum heart rate -- 220
minus one's age -- was based on observation and "superficial estimates," Robergs
said.
His research, co-written with University of New Mexico colleague Roberto
Landwehr, was published last year in the Journal of Exercise Physiology.
"The whole concept of a single heart-rate maximum is wrong and has been
overemphasized," said Robergs, whose findings have been widely accepted among
exercise physiologists since publication of the article.
More...from Active.com at:
http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=9821&sidebar=575&category=keep_fit



Vitamins - More May Be Too Many:
A growing number of medical experts are concerned that Americans are overdoing
their vitamin consumption. As many as 70 percent of the population is taking
supplements, mostly vitamins, convinced that the pills will make them healthier.
But researchers say that vitamin supplements cannot correct for a poor diet,
that multivitamins have not been shown to prevent any disease and that it is
easy to reach high enough doses of certain vitamins and minerals to actually
increase the risk of disease.
No longer, the experts say, are they concerned about vitamin deficits. Those are
almost unheard of today, even with the population eating less than ideal diets
and skimping on fruits and vegetables. Instead, the concern is with the dangers
of vitamin excess.
More...from the NY Times at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/health/nutrition/29VITA.html?ex=1053576000&en=\
f20e67b613970aef&ei=5070
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Finish, then refuel fast:
by Suzanne Girard Eberle, M.S., R.D.
You come in the door sweaty and tired, but glowing nevertheless after finishing
a satisfying five-miler. That's after putting in a full day at the office, of
course. A hot shower and the recliner are calling you, but the dog needs to be
walked, the kids are demanding attention, and your spouse is scampering out the
door to a night class. Dinner is a distant dream.
Or perhaps you run with the gang at lunchtime. You have 10 minutes to shower,
dress, and become a productive member of society again. Too bad the cafeteria is
all the way on the other side of the building.
Window of opportunity
Refueling after a workout or race is the last crucial step you must take to
ensure that you get the most out of your training. Optimal physical performance
requires careful attention to both pre- and post-workout meals. If you
consistently miss the window of opportunity that exists after exercise to
replace muscle glycogen stores, you set yourself up for poor training and racing
efforts in the upcoming days.
The physiology behind this phenomenon is simple. Your body stores excess
carbohydrate (sugars and starches), primarily in your muscles and liver, as
glycogen. Because of this, the carbohydrates you consume on a daily basis
influence the amount of muscle glycogen stored. Since muscle glycogen is the
fuel of choice for working muscles, your reserves directly affect your ability
to train and compete -- especially in endurance events.
More...the RRCA at:
http://veggie.org/run/refuel-after-run.shtml



Bolder's starter wrote the book on fitness:
Cooper authored ground-breaking 'Aerobics' in 1968.
By Ryan Thorburn, Camera Sports Writer - May 20, 2003
On Monday, as the official starter of the 25th Bolder Boulder, Dr. Kenneth H.
Cooper will usher as many as 50,000 people to the 10K course to run, walk or
wheel their way to Folsom Field for the annual aerobic celebration.
So how will the "Father of Aerobics" feel about witnessing the masses getting
their "Cooper" on?
"That's a feeling that is hard to describe," said Dr. Cooper, the
exercise/fitness/wellness pioneer who wrote the landmark book, "Aerobics," in
1968, introducing the new word and concept to America.
It's not like Cooper hasn't done something like this before. He is a celebrity
in other parts of the world, specifically Brazil, where the national futbol team
utilized his ideas in training for the 1970 World Cup, which Pele and his
teammates won.
More...from the Daily Camera at:
http://www2.dailycamera.com/bdc/running/article/0,1713,BDC_2413_1975011,00.html



From Cairo to Cape Town on two wheels:
It is called the Tour d'Afrique and, like the Tour de France, it is a grueling,
multiple-stage bicycle race.
Unlike the Tour de France, it lasts four months instead of three weeks, covers
about 11,000 kilometers (6,800 miles) instead of 3,350 kilometers and guarantees
neither fame nor riches to its winner.
In fact, the budget was so tight for the organizers of the inaugural Tour
d'Afrique that the 33 participants were each asked to pay a $7,000 entry fee.
In exchange, these 27 men and 6 women from eight countries have had the chance
to experience Africa as it has never been experienced before on a bicycle:
leaving the Cairo suburbs and their pyramids on Jan. 18 and traveling south
across sand, dust, mud, loose lava rock and deeply appreciated stretches of
smoothly paved road to South Africa, where they are scheduled to finish their
adventure disguised as a race in Cape Town on Saturday.
More...from the Herald Tribune at:
http://www.iht.com/articles/96564.html




Exercisers' most common fitness myths:
Consumers are constantly bombarded with fitness information and "expert" advice
from questionable sources.
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) recently conducted a survey of more than
1,500 ACE-certified fitness professionals to discover the exercise myths that
they most commonly hear from their clients.
The following are their top responses:
Women who lift weights will get bulky muscles. Women usually do not have the
genetic potential to develop large, bulky muscles because they don't have enough
of the hormone testosterone, which is needed for the development of muscle bulk.
While steroids and other artificial means may cause some women to bulk up,
strength training will not.
Spot reducing is possible. Spot reducing is not possible. The concept is based
on the flawed notion that it is possible to burn off fat from a specific part of
the body by selectively exercising that area. However, numerous studies have
refuted this claim. Only regular exercise training (aerobic and strength) and a
sensible diet can eliminate excess body fat.
No pain, no gain. Many people incorrectly assume that exercise must hurt to be
beneficial, when in fact exercising to the point of pain can do more harm than
good. A sensible exercise program might be uncomfortable, but should not be
painful. It should put a reasonable demand on the cardio-respiratory and
musculoskeletal systems to improve their function, without significantly
increasing the risk of injury.
More...from Active.com at:
http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=9820&sidebar=575&category=keep_fit



What Limits Endurance Performance in the Heat?
The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta brought everyone's attention to potential
problems associated with performing in the heat. Studies of marathons had
shown that the winning time was related to ambient temperature. As Dr Maughan
said, if it's very hot or very cold, the good guys don't run; but even the
athletes who do enter are slowed by the heat.
How hot is hot? What we found out is that it doesn't have to be that hot to
have a significant effect on performance. Maughan reported results of a study
(Galloway and Maughan, 1997) in which subjects cycled at 70% maximum oxygen
consumption at various ambient temperatures. Exercise time was 81 min at 4°C,
94 min at 11°C, 81 min at 21°C and 52 min at 31°C. Most of us wouldn't think
that 21°C was hot or that we'd need to acclimatize, but this study clearly
showed that athletes may need to take special considerations at normal
temperatures.
What causes performance to be reduced in the heat? Most of the research on
endurance activities tells us that the point of fatigue coincides with the point
at which muscle glycogen becomes depleted. However, these studies were done in
generally cool conditions. Febbraio et al. (1996) showed that at temperatures
of 3°C, 20°C, 40°C, exercise time ranged from 95 min to 33 min. At the point of
fatigue, glycogen concentration was low in cold and temperate conditions, but
there was no apparent shortage of glycogen at the point of fatigue in the heat.
More...from SportScience ACSM at:
http://www.sportsci.org/news/news9807/acsmmaw.html#heat



From Runner's World:
Ms. Freeze: Having trouble keeping that water bottle cold during your long run?
Stash it in the freezer the day before your long session. The slow thaw during
your run will keep your water as cold as ice. -Erin Douglas, RW associate art
director

Although all the experts agree that interval training may be the most effective
type of training devised, it is not the only type, or even the best. Use it
judiciously if you want to become a fast runner." -From Hal Higdon's Run Fast


Girls just not built for it - Bishop:
Politician Bronwyn Bishop caused a stir at a women's sports forum in Sydney
yesterday, claiming adolescent girls drop out of sport when parts of their
anatomy start "jiggling up and down".
Bishop, who was standing in for the Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the
Status of Women, Amanda Vanstone, also blamed menstruation for teenagers giving
up sport.
She said that when "that time of the month arrives" many girls are reluctant to
participate, arguing that it was late developers who played sport. A spokesman
said later that Bishop was making the point that adolescent girls needed
different sporting options when they became self-conscious.
More...from the Sydney Morning Herald at:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/20/1053196590030.html



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Top Athletes win Later in Life:
HELSINKI, Finland (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- We all know exercise is good for you,
but new research shows it may be even more beneficial than previously thought. A
new study shows top athletes are healthier even later in life.
While past studies have suggested a long-term benefit of exercise, it has been
difficult to study because many people do not keep up vigorous exercise for a
long period. In order to look at this population, researchers from Unit for
Sports and Exercise Medicine in Helsinki, Finland, conducted a study comparing
former top athletes to healthy individuals who were not top athletes.
The study included more than 2,000 men who represented Finland in international
events between 1920 and 1965. Researchers also looked at more than 1,400 men who
were considered healthy but who were not top athletes. For the study,
researchers looked at which medications the men were taking from 1970 to 1998.
Specifically, they looked at medications for hypertension, cardiac problems,
heart disease, diabetes and asthma. They also looked at the use of
anti-inflammatory drugs, antacids and vitamin and mineral supplementation.
More...from Ivanhoe at:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channelstory.cfm?channelid=CHAN-100016&storyid\
=6183



Stepping Up The Distance:
By Coach Mark Fulford
Mark Fulford is a qualified physical education teacher and coach with over 10
years experience in coaching. Having been involved in running at an
international level as a junior he switched very successfully to triathlon and
has a personal best of 9:12 for the Ironman.
Stepping up from 10k to 21k (Half Marathon) or to 42k(Marathon) requires more
then adding more training. There are a lot of pitfalls to be avoided. Coach Mark
Fulford takes a look.
In this article I will cover what you have to do to step up from a 10km event to
a 21km event or from a 21km event to a 42km event. I will focus on the required
changes in training and some major traps and pitfalls one can encounter along
the way.
Firstly, the required changes in training. When training for 10kms it is
possible to run 3-4 times a week for no more than 45 minutes and you will get
you to the finish line usually fairly comfortably. A half or full marathon on
the other hand requires a great deal more planning and structure to your
training.
More...from Endurance Coach at:
http://www.endurancecoach.com/Stepping_Up_the_Distance.htm




Health & Science: Man does 3,669 push-ups in an hour:
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (May 19, 2003 7:31 a.m. EDT) - What began as a quest to beat
his dad doing push-ups as a 12-year-old ended 28 years later with a likely world
record for Tim Sikes.
Sikes broke the record for doing push-ups in an hour with 3,669, well above the
current record of 3,416 recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. The
record was set by Canadian Roy Berger in 1998.
Sikes, who said he's been able to do 5,000 push-ups in an hour before, trained
three hours a day, six days a week since last July.
"... If you hang in there, you can break through the pain," said Sikes.
More...from Nando Times at:
http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/892077p-6214984c.html



Tapering: Rest & Rebound:
by Shelly Glover
What is Tapering?
Tapering is cutting back mileage to recuperate after all your intense marathon
training. It usually lasts two to three weeks.
Some runners gain weight, get restless, climb walls and deeply desire to run
more miles and so forth-not me. After all that running I am only too happy to
cut back on mileage. Tapering is as much an exercise in discipline as training.
Try not to flake out: if you aren't successful at resting you won't get much of
a performance rebound for marathon day.
It's natural to worry a little: Did I run enough long runs? Were my runs fast
enough? Were they slow enough? But, don't wonder, worry and question every
little ache, pain and footstep. Obsessing will drain you and strain what
friendships have survived your training. Stop fussing, you've just got to trust
your taper.
More...from the New York City Marathon at:
http://www.nyrrc.org/nyrrc/mar01/training/taper.html



New Study Points to the Importance of Muscle Recovery in Runners:
Sports Science Update
A new study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
points to the importance of post-race muscle recovery in runners. The study was
performed at the Ball State University Biomechanics Laboratory and involved 10
experienced male distance runners.
The runners performed a 10K race at maximum effort. Before, immediately after,
and 48 hours after the race, the runners engaged in a pair of leg strength
tests. They performed 50 repetitions of a knee flexion exercise and maximum
torque at three angles was recorded by an isokinetic dynamometer. They also
performed a vertical leap, and height was recorded.
More...from PoweringMuscles.com at:
http://www.poweringmuscles.com/running.asp?article_number=5


Oxygen Bars Not a Breath of Fresh Air:
(HealthScoutNews) -- Oxygen bars made their big-city debut during the flash and
sizzle of the Clinton administration.
Now, customers pay through the nose to breathe scented, purified, highly
oxygenated air in nightclubs and day spas in cities big and small, from
Sacramento, Calif., to Ann Arbor, Mich., from Las Vegas to Asheville, N.C. The
average price per minute of air: about $1.
But critics -- and there are many -- wish oxygen bars would go the way of the
Y2K bug and 21-year-old dot-com millionaires.
They say there are no medical studies that show breathing oxygen in the manner
it's dispensed at oxygen bars has any health benefits whatsoever. And too much
oxygen, especially for people with certain medical conditions, can be harmful.
"Based on our understanding of the science, it's very hard to believe that the
oxygen used in oxygen bars can be of any benefit," says Dr. Norman Edelman,
consultant for scientific affairs with the American Lung Association and vice
president for health sciences at Stony Brook University in New York.
More...from HealthScout at:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=97&ncid=97&e=1&u=/hsn/20030523/h\
l_hsn/oxygen_bars_not_a_breath_of_fresh_air
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Marathoner, triathlete finishes toughest challenge to date:
Some runners get stuck in a rut. They train the same way, do the same races
every year and don't take on new challenges or adventures. The same could be
said about many of us in the lives we lead. Some of us don't evolve.
That's why I like the story of Jana Campbell.
Last Friday, this paper published a story about her efforts to finish the
Assault on Mount Mitchell, a 102-mile bike ride from Spartanburg to the top of
the 6,684-foot Mount Mitchell in North Carolina.
She was the only woman in a group of more than 20 local cyclists to attempt the
ride on Saturday, though some women participated in the shorter Assault on
Marion. The assaults were marked with rain the whole way.
Campbell, a 37-year-old insurance adjuster, finished the Assault on Mount
Mitchell in 7 hours, 26 minutes and 21 seconds.
Because the group which organizes the assaults now is refusing to keep track of
finishers and finishing times -- an attempt to make the event noncompetitive --
Campbell does not know exactly how well she finished among other cyclists.
More...from Charleston.Net at:
http://www.charleston.net/stories/052103/qui_21running.shtml



Food for Thought:
Fats are bad and carbohydrates are good, right? Well, it's not quite that simple
- it seems it's the type of fat and the type of carb that matters.
Ask a stranger what the key to healthy eating is and, more likely than not, you
will hear the mantra "eat less fat". Low-fat foods have been promoted so
successfully, and for so many years, that they are now almost synonymous with
health. So when a leading food expert such as Susan Anderson, nutrition manager
and spokesperson for the National Heart Foundation, comes out and says that the
low-fat message is wrong, people stop and listen.
Susan Anderson is part of an increasingly influential group of international
scientists questioning some central ideas about healthy eating. Not only has the
low-fat message failed to improve our health as a population, they say, but
through the inadvertent substitution of refined carbohydrates for fats, low-fat
eating may even be contributing to the epidemics of obesity, diabetes and heart
disease that are overtaking well-fed countries worldwide. It's a deceptively
simple message, but don't reach for the lard and cheeseburgers just yet...
More...from ABC Australia at:
http://www.abc.net.au/health/features/foodthought/default.htm



This Weeks Events:
*Please verify event dates with the event websites*

May 22 -24, 2003:

NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Information - Olathe, KS
http://www.naia.org/motf/championship/2003/index.html

May 24, 2003:

Ogden Newspapers 20K Classic - Wheeling, WV
USA Masters 20 km Championships
http://www.ogden20kclassic.com/

Prefontaine Classic -Eugene, OR
http://www.preclassic.com/

May 25, 2003:

Burlington Marathon - ON
http://www.burlingtonmarathon.com/

Coeur d' Alene Marathon - ID
http://www.cdamarathon.org/

Key Bank Vermont City Marathon - Burlington, VT
http://www.vcm.org/html_2003/Templates/opening_new.shtml

Lakeshore Marathon - Chicago, IL
http://www.lakeshoremarathon.com/

Mad City Marathon - Madison, WI
http://www.madcitymarathon.com/

Med-City Marathon - Rochester, MN
http://www.medcitymarathon.com/

Nissan Buffalo Marathon - NY
http://www.buffalomarathon.com/

Praia da Vitoria International Triathlon - Portugal
http://www.federacao-triatlo.pt/pvitoria/index.html
ITU Site
http://www.triathlon.org/international/int-2003/praia-da-vitoria-2003/index.htm

Vienna City Marathon - Vienna, Austria
http://www.vienna-marathon.com/

May 26, 2003:

Bolder Boulder 10K - Boulder, CO
http://www.bolderboulder.com/

Capital of Texas Triathlon - Austin, TX
http://www.captextri.com/main.asp?FL=Y

Saddleback Memorial Half-Marathon - Laguna Hills, CA
http://www.memorialhalfmarathon.com/

August 1 - 17, 2003:

Pan American Games - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
http://www.santodomingo2003.org.do/

August 23 - 31, 2003:

9th IAAF World Championships in Athletics - Paris 2003 St-Denis, France
http://www.paris2003saintdenis.org/en/accueil.html

Check our Upcoming page for more events at:
http://www.runnersweb.com/running/rw_upcoming.html

This Weeks Personal Postings/Releases:
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