It’s been a few years since I have tested myself, but at that point I managed 46 pushups nonstop. I doubt that I could do that right now, although I could probably get into the low 30s.
There’s a craze going around right now about doing 100 non-stop pushups. The craze was [...]

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I received an email this afternoon from Guy Kawasaki letting me know about Alltop, a new aggregator of all sorts of news and topics. Run to Win has been featured on their Running Page, and there are a lot of other quality running websites also listed. If you have a few moments, you [...]

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I met Ryan Lee in August of 2007. He was a speaker at a conference that I attended, and the first night there he came into a small party we were having in a back room at the Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Austin. We chatted a little, and the next thing that [...]

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There were 6 official entries in my first Twitter Running Story Contest. The rules were simple: Post a link to a Twitter page that told a story about running or walking in exactly 140 characters.
Here are the official entries in the order in which they were received:

Nick Cross wrote: It was -34 windchill and [...]

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The contest to win a free copy of my book ends on Friday at 6:00 EDT. That is also the deadline for the parent contest over at Copyblogger. The prizes over there have expanded quite a bit, so be sure to submit your story to both places. First prize has been bumped [...]

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If you were allotted 140 characters, including punctuation and spaces, could you tell an interesting story?
That’s the challenge that was thrown down by Brian Clark at CopyBlogger, a website devoted to improving your writing.
Can you tell a story in exactly 140 characters?
That’s the idea behind the first ever @copyblogger Twitter writing contest.
It should be a [...]

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Last year, the IAAF put on a fantasy track & field league for the Osaka world championships. This past Winter, the USATF put on an event for the Visa Championship Series of races. I really enjoyed taking part in both leagues last year.
Well, this Summer the fun begins again. Both the USATF [...]

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This weekend, I will be traveling down to the Atlanta, Georgia area. The main focus for the weekend will be taking the RRCA coaching certification course, which will then be followed by the second running of the ING Georgia Marathon. In order to get ready for the race, I started out by using [...]

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How did your fantasy track team do at the Tyson Invitational “Pick & Win” for the Visa Championship Series? My team didn’t do nearly as well as at the Reebok games, but better than at the Millrose Games, and put me into 231st place overall with 228 points between the three events. I am [...]

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I have no idea if this is going to be something that is worthwhile or not, but I signed up anyway. Pat Rigsby & Dax Moy are putting on “The 12 Days of Fitness” where you will be able to download (for free) a plethora of articles, videos and podcasts from 250 different fitness [...]

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In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we wrote about great sources of information for the month of November. Today I’d like to wrap up the month by asking what is your favorite running forum?
There are a few that I visit off and on, and a couple that I [...]

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In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about great sources of information for the month of November.
Scott begins the discussion this month with a list of strength training forums.
Scott lists 7 of the best strength training forums that he frequents, although I [...]

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Active.com is integrating the community and training logs from Cool Running into The Active Network. For those of you that use Cool Running, here is what you can expect in the very near future:

Your login name will now be your email address and not your member name.
You will now have an editable Display Name [...]

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It has been a while since I have given anything away, so this weekend I am going to give away a gift card for 180 music downloads at eMusic.com. I bought the gift card with the intention of giving it to my brother, but he got a job on a cruise ship and does [...]

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There are thousands of runner’s who write about their training, their racing, and their sport. Some running websites have thousands of readers, others have hundreds, and the rest have only dozens. No matter how many readers a runner’s site has, though, they can still write passionate reports about the races that they have [...]

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I was recently contacted by Rina Ward to sample and review Hornet Juice, a powdered drink that is supposed to boost athletic performance. For all of the buzz about Hornet Juice, I did not really know all that much about it. There are two websites that the company maintains. At HornetJuice.com, you [...]

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Lisa Sabin is a personal trainer, and she hired me to write about her program over at Konamoxt where she is offering to train people online for free to get them ready for the Las Vegas Half Marathon.
By joining this introductory program you get access to exclusive features, personalized training and support, tons of useful [...]

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Photo byRefracted Moments™I am not shy about sharing my belief that caffeine is worse for you than alcohol and tobacco. Rather than repeat myself, I would rather give you a laugh by pointing you over to a Basic Instructions comic strip about “How to Quit Drinking Caffeine“. It’s a four panel strip by [...]

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I was in Texas a couple of weeks ago, and the conversation came around to Fantasy Sports (such as football and baseball) and whether that model could be applied to other sports. What do I then discover, then, but that there is one for Track & Field! Last night I wrote about the [...]

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