The Rundown

The first 6-week session down, four to go. Just like that. We had a kidney stone, illness, shin splints, bought core ball, new shoes, and st...

Progressing nicely with running/workouts till this week5, when baseball took over. Five-game tournament over the weekend, and a couple more ...

Blood in the urine. Who wants to read about that ? Well, for years, I couldn't read enough about it. I couldn't talk to enough docto...

You say you're going out for a short run, and come back two hours later.....You shower 12 times a week.....You start buying energy gels ...

Postscript on yesterday's post: The docs decided the stone was too close to the kidney to obliterate it with shock waves. So Kurt opte...

Which hurts more? It's not even close, actually. Take your worst-ever ending of a marathon, the one where you're bonking badly, dehy...

Back in 1983, my first serious bout of shinsplints sidelined me only weeks before my second Orange Bowl marathon with Roy. Talk about disapp...

Bingo! http://www.coachbenson.com/images/8090.pdf This Coach Benson site is great. This particular chart gives you the 10K time (51:00 min...

Spiffed out in mylar and Breathright. (Kurt, Chi04)

It's pre-dawn, still dark out, wife's asleep, you put on your shorts, tank, socks, shoes. Squeek! Like you're killing a mouse...

Based on 5K or 10K times, how fast should you run on an easy or recovery run (60-75% effort)? Or a 20-minute tempo run (80% effort)? Or hill...

Hitting the wall may have less to do with running out of glycogen, more to do with damaged muscles that send signals to the brain to slow do...

Germs from traveling left Kurt sick all week, an occupational hazard. As new training gear, he's thinking about wearing a white surgical...

AP, CNN and others reporting this morning that Vioxx may be coming back out on the market. New science shows the unique benefit of the drug ...

Imagine a knee so screwed up, pieces of cartilage, about the size of a quarter, float around freely, unattached, in the joint's fluids, ...

My butt feels like somebody poured concrete in my glutes. Or whacked the hell out of it with a two-by-four. Sore sore. Tenderized. I need...

Sounds boring already, and I promised. But it's been bugging me. Do we get faster by training longer at marathon pace? Or should we stic...

Three easy miles (8:56 pace), thirty minutes lifting/situps, nine chocolate chip cookies before bed. Two steps forward, one backward. Lanc...

Running under 4 hours? C'mon....what about my age, my limited running abilities (other than I keep going), my history of chronic injuri...

Me, 26.2 seconds after finishing Chicag04.

My brother Kurt, marathon virgin no more, unsure about doing a second.

Soaking it up, poolside at Buckingham Fountain

And it rained. And it rained. And it rained. My best memories of running the New York City marathon, the race I’d wanted to run more than an...

The day before the race Sitting in a small cafe on Boyston Street, the heart of downtown Boston was looking rather grim. Darkening clouds, d...