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1. Emilie's Run - The Emilie Mondor Memorial 5K Race for Women - Canada's
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THIS WEEK'S PERSONAL POSTINGS/RELEASES: We will only post notes here regarding
running and triathlon topics of interest to the
community. We have ONE personal posting this week.
ONE:
Just joined this group. My girlfriend and I recently earned slots to Clearwater
and are just looking for some insight/helpful hints
on the race. We just finished Vineman 70.3 last weekend.
Just some background on me since this is my first post....reformed marathoner
trying the multisport route for a little variety.
Live and train in Boulder Colorado.
Thanks for any feedback,
Charlie (mailto:ckelly197730@...)


THIS WEEK'S DIGEST ARTICLE INDEX:

1. Strength Training...Without Equipment
2. Training: Why Endurance Training Lacks Staying Power
3. Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health e-Zine
4. 'Wrong bras' can damage breasts
5. Limiting Fatigue When You Run
6. The intriguing problem of arrhythmias in competitive athletes
7. High and Low - New Vision on Training
8. Audio Interview with Dr. Gerry Ramogida
9. HyperBaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) & Athletic Performance
10. Ask the Experts: Exercise Well
Dr. Paul D. Thompson: Should I run when I have a cold? How do I know if I'm too
sick to exercise?
11. Exercise Could Be The Heart's Fountain Of Youth
12. Sweat And Hydration Issues Examined In Recently Released Journal Supplement
13. Beat the Heat
14. Low-Gravity Training Machine Reduces Joint, Muscle Impacts on Runners by
Half, Says University of Colorado Study
15. This Week in Running
16. New research highlights supplements risk
17. Fueling the Runner: Foods for the Freedom Run
What to take when you're getting away.
18. Scientists eye couch potato exercise, weight-loss pill
19. A little stretching may not dampen muscle strength
20. Digest Briefs


RUNNER'S WEB WEEKLY POLL:
"Who will win the men's 100M at the Beijing Olympics?
Usain Bolt
Walter Dix
Tyson Gay
Francis Obikwelu
Asafa Powell
Other"

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LAST WEEK'S POLL RESULTS:
"Which of the following workouts do you incorporate into your training on a
regular basis?
Answers Percent
1. Long Runs 21%
2. Tempo Runs 15%
3. Hill Training 14%
4. Pace Intervals 15%
5. Speed Intervals 14%
6. Running Drills 11%
7. Pilates, Yoga, etc. 10%
8. Other 1%


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Owen Anderson, Ph. D., started EducatedRunner.com to give runners of all ages
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the many myths associated with running training and
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their fitness and performances. Owen Anderson is the
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Aurora.
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BOOK/VIDEO OF THE MONTH: This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of
Escape, Faith, and Forgiveness
by Gilbert Tuhabonye (Author), Gary Brozek (Author)
Book Description
From Publishers Weekly
In this inspirational autobiography woven with a gruesome eyewitness account,
Tuhabonye recounts his maturation as a world-class
runner and his survival of a Burundi massacre. Born in 1974 to a minority ethnic
Tutsi family, Tuhabonye grew up in rural Burundi,
his intelligence and industry aided by spectacular athletic ability. The
narrative alternates between the author's life story and
events on the day of the massacres. In October 1993, after a Tutsi coup ousted
the Hutu president, a Hutu mob invaded Tuhabonye's
high school, hacked many Tutsi students to death with machetes and forced the
rest into a building that they set afire. Only the
author survived. After months of painful recovery from severe burns, he regained
the ability to walk and then run again, a healing
process facilitated by his faith—a devout Christian, he says he forgave the
murderers and praises God for sparing him. Tuhabonye
joined Burundi's national team, traveled the world, fell in love and moved to
the U.S., where he now lives with his wife and
daughter—an uplifting ending to a simply told story of a man who persevered
through hard work, luck, presence of mind and (he
emphasizes) God's love. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover
edition.
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURES:


1. Strength Training...Without Equipment:
You don't need equipment or gadgets to stretch and strengthen your muscles, and
there are a surprising number of exercises for
endurance and strength that you can do at home, when you travel, or even at the
office, that don't cost a dime. And you don't have
to do them all at once, which means you can add to your health and fitness
whenever you feel like taking a break.
Endurance
Jogging in place is a basic way to raise your heart rate. A little more
interesting, and much more effective is stair climbing.
Stairs are everywhere. Chances are you have some at home, in shopping malls and
stores, at hotels, or at work. Since you have to
work against gravity to step up, you burn calories at least twice as fast as
just walking. This means you get a greater aerobic
benefit on stairs than most other endurance activities in the same amount of
time. A 150 pound person burns about 12 calories per
minute stepping up at one step per second (but less going down, of course),
compared to 5.5 walking.
If you can't find stairs, use a box or stool and simply step up and down, which
is just as effective as stairs. About eight to 12
inches high is comfortable for most people. If you find this a tad tedious, you
can watch TV or a video. Don't forget to switch legs
every now and then; you will end up sore on the step down side if you don't
change.
For upper body aerobic workouts try arm circles. You can do these in several
ways. Hold your arms out horizontally and begin with
small circles, building to large circles and back down to small circles. You can
begin with your arms at your sides and perform
vertical circles, too. Change direction for variety.
More...from the Runner's Web at:
http://www.runnersweb.com/running/news_2008/rw_news_20080729_TSH_Strength.html


2. Training: Why Endurance Training Lacks Staying Power:
The biggest mistake endurance athletes make in their training program is falling
into the trap that their sport is about who can go
the longest. It's not. It's STILL about who can go the fastest. They give medals
for the first athlete to cross the 5K / 10K /
marathon / ultra marathon finish line - not the athlete who crosses it and can
keep on going. There's a reason it's 26 miles and 385
yards. There's an END point. And whoever gets there the fastest will be the
winner.
Traditional endurance training programs reflect that fallacy. They are based
around a lot of mileage to increase your endurance.
As a sports scientist - let me break this down. Endurance in my field - is the
ability to maintain a constant sub maximal output -
to maintain a lower percentage of your max output. In other words - your ability
to run/bike/swim slower than you are able to, for
longer periods of time.
So if your ability to run fast (at maximal speed) merits a hypothetical 'score'
of 100 units - you may be able to run a 10K race at
70% of this or 70 units.
Typical endurance training involves you running at this 70% for long periods of
time, hoping that somehow - when it comes to race
day - you'll be able to run at 75%! This will never happen. If you can run a six
minute mile - and you train for 12 weeks running
3-4 miles at a time, at 6min mile pace - what do you predict you'll run on race
day? That's correct - a six minute mile. You've
trained for 12 weeks and produce the same speed you were capable of before you
trained.
More...from the Runner's Web at:
http://www.runnersweb.com/running/news_2008/rw_news_20080722_TSH_Endurance.html


3. Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health e-Zine:
* Saturated Fat Risks Cancelled by Exercise
The Masai of Kenya and Tanzania eat the same type of high animal-fat diet as
North Americans, but they have a very low incidence of
heart attacks. In spite of the large amount of
saturated fats in their diets, they have lower body weights, waist measurements,
blood pressures and cholesterol levels (British
Journal of Sports Medicine, July 2008). This is explained by the fact that the
average Masai burns 4,000 kilocalories a day, which
is roughly equal to walking 12 miles every day.
Saturated fat is the dominant fat in meat, chicken and whole milk dairy
products. It raises cholesterol only when a person takes in
more calories than he burns. A high-meat diet
does not cause heart attacks in people who get a lot of exercise. Saturated
fats are broken down by your body into two-carbon
units. If you are getting too many calories, your liver converts these
two-carbon units into cholesterol. If you are not getting
enough calories, your body burns these units for energy.
When you take in more calories than your body needs, you store the excess as
fat. Full fat cells release cytokines into your
bloodstream, and they turn on your immunity. Your immunity is good because it
protects you from infection, but if it stays
overactive, it starts to destroy your body including your heart and blood
vessels. The bottom line: if you eat much saturated fat,
be sure to get plenty of exercise.
* How Lack of Exercise Shortens Lives
Many studies show that people die from inactivity, not just from aging. We know
that as people age, they lose muscle, their
immunities weaken and because of their weakened
immunity, they are more likely to die of cancer and infectious diseases. As you
age, you lose your ability to kill germs because of
lack of muscle. When germs get into your body, you must make white blood cells
and proteins called antibodies to kill them.
Antibodies and cells are made from protein and the only place that you can store
extra protein is in your muscles. When you have
large muscles, you have a ready source of protein to make antibodies and cells.
When you have small muscles, you have a very limited
source of amino acids to make protein, so your immunity may be inadequate to
kill germs.
You need antibodies to control cancer cells also. Each day, every healthy body
makes millions of cancer cells. Your white blood
cells and protein antibodies are necessary to ferret
out and kill these cancer cells. You develop cancer when these cancer cells
survive and start growing. Having large muscles gives
you the source of protein to make antibodies that kill cancer cells as well as
germs. Furthermore, when your skeletal muscles are
small, so is your heart muscle. A strong heart can withstand arteriosclerosis
and infections that can kill a weak heart.
Lack of exercise causes muscles to get smaller. With aging, it takes
increasingly longer to recover from exercise. When older
people get injured or get tired too soon or feel sore too early, they do less
and less or they stop exercising altogether.
Instead, they should be exercising more intelligently so they can retain their
muscles.
A major advantage of competing in sports at any age is that you can learn good
training techniques and how to avoid injuries. If you
can exercise into your nineties and beyond without quitting or getting injured,
you can retain muscle mass, keep up your immunity
and live longer and healthier.
* What kind of exercise program should I do after a knee injury?
If you break cartilage in your knee, avoid sports that cause further damage such
as those requiring running and jumping. You can
help to prevent more cartilage loss with an exercise program that strengthens
the muscles that control your knee. Bones are soft. To
keep them from wearing down at joints, their ends are covered with a thick white
gristle called cartilage. Broken cartilage never
heals. Removing broken cartilage may increase a person's chances of needing a
knee replacement in the future, particularly if the
exerciser continues to run and jump.
Former world-class athletes are supposed to have tough, strong bodies, but they
suffer high risk for permanent knee damage , while
non-competitive exercisers are at very low risk. Repeated cortisone-type
injections can weaken cartilage and cause further damage.
Nonsteroidal pain medications do not prevent further damage. Weak thigh muscles
increase chances for further knee damage, so all
people with knee damage should strengthen the muscles that control their knees
using a special knee weight machine, and start a
supervised program of cycling or swimming, provided that it does not hurt.
From Dr. Gabe Mirkin's Fitness and Health E-Zine at:
http://www.drmirkin.com


4. 'Wrong bras' can damage breasts:
Women who wear the wrong kind of bra could be damaging their breasts,
researchers have warned.
The breast biomechanics team at the University of Portsmouth said poor support
could lead to fragile ligaments in the breast being
stretched.
They said that during exercise, breasts move up to 21cm (8.26inches), up and
down, in and out and side to side - but most bras just
limit vertical movement.
And they warned crop-top sports bras did not give enough support
The research team has tested about 50 bra designs on hundreds of women during
the past three years.
Wendy Hedger, one of the scientists who carried out the work, said: "Many women
have strong preferences for certain styles of bra
and won't buy anything else.
"They won't even look at anything that doesn't look like the sort of bra they
are used to wearing.
"In sports bras, for example, many women won't buy a bra that resembles their
everyday bra and does up at the back - they think if
it can't be pulled over their heads like a crop top, then it's not a real sports
bra.
"But this is not true and many sports bras do up at the back in the same way as
a traditional bra and do a very good job of
supporting women."
'Social stigma'
She added that habit also affects the bras women choose for everyday wear, with
the wrong choices potentially causing breast pain or
discomfort.
More...from the BBC at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7523295.stm


5. Limiting Fatigue When You Run:
One of the great mysteries of running is why elite African endurance runners
have greater fatigue-resistance, compared with runners
from the rest of the world.
What do we mean by fatigue-resistance? It is simply the ability to sustain a
high-quality pace.
If you tell an elite African runner to run as far as possible at an intensity of
90 percent of maximal aerobic capacity (VO2max),
he/she will often be able to race a half-marathon at that level of effort. But,
if you provide the same instructions for an elite
American or European distance runner, he/she will be able to run for only six or
seven miles before slowing down. The elite African
has greater fatigue resistance - an enhanced capacity to perform at a high
intensity for a sustained period of time without
diminishing pace.
Traditionally, we have tried to explain differences in performance between
endurance runners by invoking an “aerobic paradigm.”
Superior performances were thought to be the result of higher aerobic capacities
and therefore faster speeds.
More...from the Educated Runner at:
http://www.educatedrunner.com/Blog/tabid/633/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1\
14/Limiting-Fatigue-When-You-Run.aspx


6. The intriguing problem of arrhythmias in competitive athletes:
During the evaluation of competitive athletes, a history or a documentation of
cardiac arrhythmias has become particularly important
because arrhythmias may be the initial expression of an underlying cardiac
disease or of primary electrical disorders, sometimes
early manifestations of potentially life-threatening events. Cardiac arrhythmias
are among the most important causes of
non-eligibility to sports activities, and some arrhythmogenic diseases are three
times more frequent among athletes than among
sedentary subjects of the same age.
Arrhythmias, in young competitive athletes and also the elite are usually
"benign" or "paraphysiological" (duo to prolonged
training). In some cases, arrhythmias may be "pathological" and also
life-threatening, and can lead to major cardiac events as
cardiac arrest and sudden death.
Consequently, it is mandatory to identify in each athlete with significant
arrhythmias both the risk of continuing the athletic
career as well the best curative and preventive treatment if necessary.
From 1974 until April 2004, we have studied and monitored a population of 2640
competitive athletes with important arrhythmias (mean
age 21.5 years), and 345 (13%) of international elite level (mean age 24 years).
During the follow up, 62 Cardiac Arrests (CA) were
reported, of which 24 (0.9%) were Sudden Deaths (SD) while 38 (1.4%) were
resuscitated from cardiac arrest (Table I). In the subset
of elite athletes, the major events were 13 (22.4%), with six sudden deaths
(1.7%) and seven (2.0%) cardiac arrests.
More...from Medical News Today at:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/30170.php


7. High and Low - New Vision on Training:
The immediate question from most athletes is what does this mean for my
training. Nearly every athlete is looking for a "magic"
workout, the one intensity that will cause the most improvement. From the
literature on training it should be clear that several
adaptations have to take place to maximize potential. One training intensity
will not be most effective let alone "magic". In fact
any single training intensity used exclusively is a very ineffective way to
train. One specific training intensity is very popular,
the lactate/anaerobic threshold or maximum lactate steady state. This pace may
be a dangerous training effort for an athlete except
in very specific circumstances. Why, because it puts to too much strain on the
energy systems. It may actually break down the
athlete instead of providing the improvement wanted.
If you search the training literature or consult different coaches, you will
find hundreds of different approaches. So which is
best? If we knew the single best approach, then we would be making fortunes
training world champions. I am sure if you asked the
coaches of the medalists at the Olympics you would get a myriad of approaches.
With this said, we do have a point of view and it is
based on the theories of Jan Olbrecht discussed in his book (The Science of
Winning).
We call it High and Low. Dr. Olbrecht does not have a name for this approach but
it consists of several different elements that have
the objective of training the energy systems to a proper balance.
More...from TriFuel at:
http://www.trifuel.com/training/triathlon-training/high-and-low-new-vision-on-tr\
aining



8. Audio Interview with Dr. Gerry Ramogida:
Dr. Gerry Ramogida is a certified chiropractor, acupuncturist and Active Release
practitioner who has worked with numerous
international athletics stars such as Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey and Mark
Boswell. He is also the team chiropractor for the Seattle
Seahawks of the NFL. He currently works with Canadian Record holders Tyler
Christopher and Adam Kunkel and was named to the 2008
Canadian Olympic team for athletics as team medical staff.
In part one of this two-part interview Dr. Ramogida discusses a number of issues
surrounding therapy and its implementation into a
training program including what to look for in a potential therapist working
with your athletes, establishing a
therapist-coach-athlete relationship, how to assess an athlete, red flags
commonly found when assessing an athlete, common injury
sites, what coaches interested in doing their own therapy should do, and a
review of gait analysis. For coaches interested in taking
their coaching to the next level this interview is for you.
More...from the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center at:
http://www.athleticscoaching.ca/?pid=1&spid=81


9. HyperBaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) & Athletic Performance:
This newer device is often referred to by its manufacturer as a Mild Hyperbaric
Chamber. Instead of using pure oxygen, a medical
compressor fills an enclosed fabric chamber with ambient air; in other words,
just the air in the room. But there is an important
difference. The air is filtered and then pumped into the chamber until the
pressure inside increases 3 PSI (pounds per square inch).
According to research by Dr. Philip Moffetone, an expert in athletic training,
that increased air pressure inside the chamber allows
our body to absorb 17% more oxygen. It's the increase of oxygen in our tissues
and blood (supersaturation) that leads to the
benefits.
The person using the chamber lies comfortably inside. There are two clear
plastic windows and in some therapy spas in L.A., the
operators place TV's in view of the users so they can be entertained while they
"chamber."
"More oxygen equals better health," Dr. Walter Conard of Lincoln states simply.
A Nebraska native, Conard has been a chiropractor
for 17 years. He is one of two physicians in Lincoln who utilize the Mild
Hyperbaric Chambers.
"I've been studying hyperbaric therapy for a long, long time. Only now are the
chambers in an affordable range that opens up the
therapy to everyone," Conard continued. "The pressure is the whole thing. It
supersaturates the body and increases oxygen uptake."
What kind of things do people find are helped by this supersaturated
oxygenation?
"There's a different response for everyone. Certainly it's been shown that
increased oxygen accelerates healing. And one thing big
right now is the damage caused by free-radicals. That's very much in the news.
Think of any disease caused by free-radicals and
that's one that can be addressed by supersaturation with oxygen," Conard tells
us.
Mark Gustafson is the other Lincoln physician who offers HBOT to his patients.
"It's unique. I think they do have a 100% chamber at UN Med Center there. The
main reason I first got interested in it was because
I'm in training for the New York City Marathon. This therapy has a great deal of
research about its use for world-class athletes,"
Gustafson said in a phone interview.
Athletes are often so well in tune with their bodies that they appreciate the
advantages of some of these alternative therapies more
readily. Many use them to address pain and get back to work. Their livelihood
depends on their health and so they are more likely to
be open to using something that helps.
"Research in 1993 found that athletes show faster recovery times, perform
better, have lower resting heart rate ratings and their
perceived exertion level is lower. Triathletes over a 14 month period showed a
3% overall improvement in performance. At first that
doesn't look like a lot, but these are the upper echelon who are already
performing at a super-high level. 3% increase can be huge
at that level. The difference between a world record and not qualifying can be
less than 1%!" said Gustafson.
"Oxygen deficiency is a contributing factor in so many diseases. Some at
greatest risk are the elderly, smokers, those who do heavy
work, people who work indoors, people in high stress positions, people with
illness or those with immune system deficiencies," said
Gustafson. "My focus now is on the anti-aging benefits. There are a number of
anti-aging centers on the Coasts and it's time we had
one or more here. This will play a big part in that."
Dr. Conard is in line with that thinking too. "As we age, our ability to uptake
oxygen decreases. After age twenty-five, with each
decade we lose 5 to 10 % of our ability to take in oxygen," he said.
And what is the most remarkable response he has seen with this new treatment?
"Treating asthma. It's amazing," Conard answered without a moment's hesitation.
"It's just amazing."
Dr. Gustafson reminds us what the new shift in healthcare is all about: "Now we
can take more personal responsibility into our own
hands for our health. We can seek out those things and practices that can aid
our health and we can make choices and do things that
improve it. This is just another of those things we can do."
From Healing Dives at:
http://www.healingdives.com/


10. Ask the Experts: Exercise Well
Dr. Paul D. Thompson: Should I run when I have a cold? How do I know if I'm too
sick to exercise?
There are no hard and fast rules for exercising during illness--there is little
in the way of solid medical research--so athletes
must use common sense. Generally, if you're sick and don't feel like working
out, don't. This is simply a corollary of the rule
"listen to your body"--it's trying to tell you something.
You can take several days off a training schedule or routine without affecting
your overall fitness level, so it's generally better
to back off training when you're feeling under the weather. Be sure to get
additional sleep and rest. But if a cold sidelines your
training right before a big race, and you feel up to it, it's not necessary to
cancel your plans.
The only time I prohibit a patient from exercising is when he or she has the flu
with muscle aches. A good rule of thumb: If
symptoms are only above your neck (like sneezing or a runny nose), you can keep
exercising. But if you feel congestion in your chest
or if your body aches, it's best to stop working out.
Why? Aches imply that the muscles are involved in the inflammatory process.
Since the heart is a muscle, the presence of muscle
aches raises the possibility that there is also cardiac inflammation. Some
people even get rare viral infections of the heart called
"viral myocarditis," which can cause abnormal heart enlargement and other
serious problems, especially when the heart muscle is
stressed, as it would be during a run. There is also evidence that hard exercise
during a viral illness helps the virus survive,
keeping you sicker longer.
I'm 40 and training to run my first marathon. My family is worried because
they've heard about runners my age dying from heart
attacks. Do I need to be concerned?
More...from Ironman.com at:
http://tinyurl.com/62myvc


11. Exercise Could Be The Heart's Fountain Of Youth:
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it
younger. According to a study conducted at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, older people who did
endurance exercise training for about a year ended up
with metabolically much younger hearts. The researchers also showed that by one
metabolic measure, women benefited more than men
from the training.
"We know that the heart deteriorates as people get older, and that's largely
because they don't stay as active as they used to,"
says first author Pablo F. Soto, M.D., instructor in medicine in the
Cardiovascular Division. "Past research has suggested that
exercise can reverse some effects of aging, and we wanted to see what effect it
would have specifically on the heart."
The researchers measured heart metabolism in sedentary older people both at rest
and during administration of dobutamine, a drug
that makes the heart race as if a person were exercising vigorously. At the
start of the study, they found that in response to the
increased energy demands produced by dobutamine, the hearts of the study
subjects didn't increase their uptake of energy in the form
of glucose (blood sugar).
More...from Science Daily at:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080723134431.htm


12. Sweat And Hydration Issues Examined In Recently Released Journal Supplement:
A new supplement focusing on the vital importance of sodium in maintaining
voluntary drinking, plasma sodium concentration, vascular
volume, total body water, and cardiovascular function during rest and physical
activity has been made available with the July/August
2008 issue of Current Sports Medicine Reports, the official clinical review
journal of the American College of Sports Medicine
(ACSM).
The supplement was produced as a result of a meeting of international scientists
and clinicians in conjunction with the Gatorade
Sports Science Institute (GSSI). Experts on hydration and exercise came together
to examine issues related to sodium balance in
athletes and other individuals who may regularly experience large sweat sodium
losses.
More...from Medical News Today at:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116338.php


13. Beat The Heat:
Advice from runners and readers about training in hot and humid conditions.
1. Drink Up
"When it's hot, I drink at least two more cups of water than usual," says Robert
McLane of Scottsdale, Arizona. If you're going out
early, "hydrate throughout the day before," says Aaron Runyon of Pace, Florida.
The rule of thumb is to aim for 16 to 32 ounces of
fluid per hour of exercise, or three to six ounces every 15 to 20 minutes. "Make
sure you hydrate with fluids containing
electrolytes since you will be sweating a lot of salt out," says John Eng of New
York City. Look for a drink that contains 25 to 50
grams of carbs, 230 to 345 milligrams of sodium, and 40 to 100 milligrams of
potassium.
2. Run Very Early (or Very Late)
"We meet up anytime between 3 and 5 a.m. so we can be done around the time the
sun rises," says Elizabeth Hensley of the running
club The Bee Team in Tucson, where the normal high in July is 100° F. If you
can't go early, go as late in the day as possible.
Although the sun is highest in the sky at noon, the earth's surface heat peaks
between 3 and 5 p.m. "I run at mid-night," says Nick
Davis of Midlothian, Virginia. "I wear just shorts and shoes."
3. Plan Ahead
Run in a park with water fountains or on a route with convenience stores. "I map
my run to make sure I can refill my bottles," says
Dominique Perrier of New Orleans. Or stash a cache. "My weekday runs are usually
a series of loops in the neighborhood, so I can
double past my house, where I leave water or a sports drink by my mailbox," says
Warren Biddle of Brandon, Mississippi. "I sometimes
ride my bike or drive the route and leave some water along the way," says Sloan
McLaughlin, who lives in Egypt. Jesse Mack of Boston
keeps a cooler at the end of his street with water, Gatorade, and a hat. "I grab
a drink, and switch off hats, so I get a cooldown
every loop."
More...from Runner's World at:
http://tinyurl.com/5rw33k


14. Low-Gravity Training Machine Reduces Joint, Muscle Impacts on Runners by
Half, Says University of Colorado Study:
BOULDER, Colo., July 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of Colorado at
Boulder study of a space-age, low-gravity training machine
used by several 2008 Olympic runners showed it reduced impacts on muscles and
joints by nearly half when subjects ran at the
equivalent of 50 percent of their body weight.
The new study has implications for both competitive runners rehabilitating from
injuries and for ordinary people returning from knee
and hip surgeries, according to Associate Professor Rodger Kram of CU-Boulder's
integrative physiology department.
Known as the "G-Trainer," the machine consists of a treadmill surrounded by an
inflatable plastic chamber that encases the lower
body of the runner, said Kram. Air pumped into the chamber increases the
pressure and effectively reduces the weight of runners, who
are sealed in the machine at the waist in a donut-shaped device with a special
zipper and "literally lifted up by their padded
neoprene shorts," he said.
Published in the August issue of the Journal of Applied Biomechanics, the study
is the first to quantify the effects of running in
the G-Trainer, built by Alter-G Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., using technology
developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.
The paper was authored by Kram and former CU-Boulder doctoral student Alena
Grabowski, now a postdoctoral researcher at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Although G-Trainers have been used in some sports clinics and college and
professional sports training rooms since 2006, the new
study is the first scientific analysis of the device as a training tool for
running, said Grabowski.
"The idea was to measure which levels of weight support and speeds give us the
best combination of aerobic workout while reducing
the impact on joints," said Kram. "We showed that a person can run faster in the
G-Trainer at a lower weight and still get
substantial aerobic benefits while maintaining good neuromuscular coordination."
More... From AScribe at:
http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20080730.091123&time=09%\
2046%20PDT&year=2008&public=0


15. This Week in Running:
10 Years Ago- Khalid Khannouchi (USA) won the La Corsa Piu' Antica in
Castelbuono ITA, clocking a
33:16.8 for a difficult 11K to win over Elijah Korir (KEN) at
33:27.2 and Antonio
Pinto (POR) ar 33:30.1. Agata Balsamo won the women's 5.6K in
18:56.7 as Italians
went 1-3. Simona Viola was 2nd in 19:06.3 and Paola Persi was
3rd in 19:07.7.
The women's race was discontinued after the 2004 race.
20 Years Ago- Mark Curp (USA) won the Quad City Times Bix (IA/USA) 7M by a wide
margin over Bill
Reifsnyder (USA), 33:22 to 34:04. Joseph Nzau (KEN) was 3rd in
34:21. Joan
Samuelson (USA) won her 4th title with a 37:59 victory over
Brenda Webb (USA) who
came in at 38:45. Cyndie Brown (USA) was 3rd in 38:49 and
Priscilla Welch (ENG)
was 4th at 40:09 at age 44. Samuelson was 18th this year in
42:36.
30 Years Ago- John Lodwick (USA) won the 4th edition of the Quad City Times Bix
(IA/USA) 7M by
a comfortable margin over Greg Newell (USA), 34:56 to 35:36.
Kathy Loper (USA) won
the women's race in 45:38.
40 Years Ago- Timothy Johnson (ENG) won the AAA Marathon title in 2:15:26 over
Bill Adcocks (ENG)
who ran 2:15:41. James Alder (SCO) was 3rd in 2:16:37 and Ron
Hill (ENG) was 4th
in 2:17:11. The race was held in Cwmbran WAL with Lynn Hughes
claiming the WAL title
with a 2:31:51.
50 Years Ago- Vincent Frazer-Walker (IRL) won the Irish AAU Marathon
Championships race held in
Dublin IRL with a 2:32:42. The next day, Noel McGowan (IRL) won
the All Ireland NACA
Marathon Championships, also held in Dublin, with a 2:29:23. For
a brief history of
the various Irish championships and "governing" bodies, refer to
the ARRS web pages
for the IRL marathon and 5000m championships.
60 Years Ago- Emil Zatopek (CZE) won a the 10,000m Olympic title over Alain
Mimoun (FRA), 29:59.6
to 30:47.4. Bertil Albertsson (SWE) collected the bronze medal
with a 30:53.6.
Zatopek also collected a silver medal in the 5000m just three
days later
From The Analytical Distance Runner, the newsletter for the Association of Road
Racing Statisticians with a
focus on races, 3000m and longer, including road, track, and cross-country
events.
The ARRS has a website at http://www.arrs.net.


16. New research highlights supplements risk:
The importance of athletes thinking carefully about which supplements they use
has been highlighted by research conducted by HFL
Sport Science and Lucozade Sport which found that 10.5% of 152 supplements it
tested contained prohibited substances not listed on
the label.
Responding to the research, Andy Parkinson, Acting Director of Drug-Free Sport
at UK Sport said:
“We know great strides have been made by many manufacturers in ensuring the
supplements they produce are not contaminated. However,
the research highlights the fact this isn’t the case across the board and
emphasises how important it is for athletes to consider
their options with regards to the use of supplements.
“Our message to athletes is clear – ignorance is not an excuse when it comes to
supplements and ‘strict liability’ still applies. If
you test positive as a result of using a contaminated supplement you will face a
sanction under the World Anti-Doping Code and could
be looking at up to a two-year ban. We therefore encourage all athletes to
minimise the risk by taking the time to make sensible,
informed decisions about supplements.”
UK Sport recently issued a new Position Statement for athletes which references
the Informed Sport programme – a new initiative by
HFL which is designed to evaluate supplement manufacturers for their process
integrity and to screen supplements and ingredients for
the presence of substances that appear on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s List of
Prohibited Substances and Methods. At the time,
Parkinson said:
More...from UK Sport at:
http://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/new_research_highlights_supplements_risk/


17. Fueling the Runner: Foods for the Freedom Run:
What to take when you're getting away.
What a perfect morning. You reach across the bed to turn off the alarm as the
sun just begins to peak above the horizon. Grab your
morning brew, banana, and bagel. Lace up those trail shoes because today you
are planning a long one. Several hours of leisure
trail running in the company of good friends or a simple retreat with the great
outdoors can be invigorating.
The best way to describe this type of run is “getting lost” for a few hours. It
is more of an adventure, a wonderful opportunity to
climb a mountain or find a new creek to hurdle. The only real reason to wear a
watch is to have a general sense of time. I often
call this type of run Freedom Running. Go wherever you want and enjoy the
twists and turns nature has paved.
This type of run may seem to require little preparation. No real thought needs
to be put into time or pace. But in fact it does
require some thought. A long trail run is much more enjoyable with fuel in the
tank. Depleted glycogen stores an hour and a half
away from home can make for a brutal return trip.
Appropriate attire is always must. You will have a lot to store depending on
how long you decide to run. Who wants to feel
confined by a water bottle in one hand and gels in the other. It takes away
from the notion that this is freedom running. Purchase
apparel you designate as your “long haul” gear. Whether it’s in the form of a
fanny pack, camelback, or water belt, be sure to find
the right fit for you. After all it would be unfortunate if you got sore from
the way your fully stocked apparel rubbed instead of
from the actual run itself.
More...from Running Times at:
http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=13881


18. Scientists eye couch potato exercise, weight-loss pill:
Scientists have discovered what could be the ultimate workout for couch
potatoes: exercise in a pill.
In experiments on mice that did no exercise, the chemical compound, known as
AICAR, allowed them to run 44 percent farther on a
treadmill than those that did not receive the drug.
The drug, according to the researchers, changed the physical composition of
muscle, essentially transforming the tissue from
sugar-burning fast-twitch fibers to fat-burning slow-twitch ones -- the same
change that occurs in distance runners and cyclists
through training.
The researchers said the drug's fat-burning ability could also help reduce
weight, ward off diabetes and prevent heart disease --
the benefits of daily aerobic activity without the perspiration.
"It's an amazing piece of pharmacology," said David Mangelsdorf, a
pharmacologist at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
in Dallas, who was not connected with the research. "You're getting the benefits
of exercise without having to do any work." It is
not known if the drug has any benefit for athletes who actually work out -- or
any human for that matter, since the research has so
far only involved mice.
"The mouse doctors and cell biologists are of course quite enthusiastic about
these things, but the human doctors are a little more
reticent," said Dr. Benjamin Levine, a cardiologist who leads the Institute for
Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Presbyterian
Hospital of Dallas, and who was not involved in the study.
More...from Newsday at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hspill0801,0,6745482.story


19. A little stretching may not dampen muscle strength:
While some research has raised the question of whether pre-workout stretching
hinders muscle performance, a new study suggests that
a few minutes of stretching may not sap the average exerciser's muscle strength.
Stretching is part of many active people's pre-exercise routine. But some recent
studies have been pointing to potentially negative
effects on athletic performance.
In some studies, though not all, stretching right before a workout has been
found to decrease both sprint speed and jump height.
There's also evidence that stretching temporarily reduces muscle strength.
However, one question has been whether such effects would be seen after the
short bouts of stretching that a typical exerciser or
weekend athlete might perform.
The new study, published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise,
looked at just such a "practical" stretching
regimen.
Researchers measured calf-muscle strength in 13 moderately active men and women
under four different conditions: after no
stretching, and before and after 2, 4 or 8 minutes of calf-muscle stretching.
More...from Scientific American at:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-little-stretching-may-n


20. Digest Briefs:
* The skeptical medic
Q How soon after giving birth should women return to strenuous exercise? Is
Paula Radcliffe a good example or an unattainable goal?
A: There are probably only a handful of athletes that have achieved significant
athletic success following pregnancy but, as Paula
Radcliffe will no doubt testify, training has to be adapted for at least three
months to avoid the risks encountered after delivery.

Most problems centre around the potential for bone and joint injuries and
inconveniences such as incontinence. Bone density also
drops by about 5 per cent during pregnancy and breast feeding, increasing the
risk of stress fractures.
In order to minimise these effects, you should maintain exercise during
pregnancy at around 70 per cent maximum. In the last few
months swimming can replace running. This training helps protect against bone
loss, maintains your muscle mass and may reduce your
chance of a Caesarean and diabetes.
After an uncomplicated delivery, you can start walking, swimming and undertaking
pelvic floor exercises almost immediately. It may
be worth taking iron tablets in the first months to help alleviate anaemia.
Gently increase exercise intensity through cross
training such as running in water, cycling and/or a stepper. After two weeks,
introduce a few short runs per week. If you are breast
feeding, be mindful that milk production may decline as training intensity
increases. For guidelines visit rcog.org uk.
· Dr Nicholas Peirce is the ECB's chief medical officer and a lead physician for
the English Institute of Sport. To ask a question,
email mailto:osm@...


THIS WEEK'S FEATURED EVENTS:
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August 1-2, 2008, 2008:
Wild West Relay - Fort Collins, CO

August 2, 2008, 2008:
National Capital Triathlon - Ottawa, ON
National Capital 5/10K - Ottawa, ON

TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10K - Cape Elizabeth, ME

August 3, 2008, 2008:
FootZone 5K - Redmond, WA

K-Town Triathlon - Kingston, ON

Quake & Shake Half Marathon / 10K - Mammoth Lakes, CA

San Francisco Marathon - San Francisco, CA

August 3-4, 2008, 2008:
Owen Sound Triathlon Weekend - ON

August 15-24, 2008
Olympic Games - Beijing, China

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RUNNER'S WEB AFFILIATE PROGRAMS:
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All revenue from advertisers and affiliate programs goes into the support of
running and triathlon through sponsorship of events,
teams, clinics and fund raising programs for Canada's Olympic athletes.

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