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The boy who was born without a right hand and wanted to play baseball with his classmates. He devised a one-armed throw/catch method, and when the other kids didn’t play with him, he practiced by throwing a baseball against a brick wall. Years later, that boy pitched in the Major Leagues and the United States Olympic team….
New Year’s resolutions don’t stick. Everyone knows it, and it’s now become almost cliched to push for a “no-resolutions New Year’s.” But let’s make a big distinction here. On the one hand, you have the ill-fated type of resolution we’re all familiar with: “I won’t smoke in 2012.” “I’ll start my exercise plan on January…
Post written by Susan Lacke. When I was a kid, I always swore that when I grew up my days would be filled with snack time and recess. Twenty years later, though I still won’t admit to being a grown-up, I will say I’ve managed to make my childhood dream come true: life as a…
Last week when I was in San Francisco, I had the great pleasure of having a couple beers with Leo Babauta. Leo writes the blog Zen Habits, and over the past six months his ideas have shaped my thinking more than any others. So it was an absolute treat to hang out with him in…
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to find the best way to bring No Meat Athlete into the real world. It’s not that the internet doesn’t rock. It’s that running and eating vegetarian food — what the blog is about — happen in real life, not in 0′s and 1′s. To a large…
Last year, Katie Adzima’s Thanksgiving was filled with what so many of us love about the day: friends, family, football, and food. Lots of food. That day, before dinner, Katie noshed on chips, dips, and appetizers. When her aunt announced dinner was served, Katie giggled with glee as she ran through three full rooms of…
From an email I recently received (subject, “O’dark thirty”) : Hi Matt, It’s a tragic time when days are dark by the time I leave work and am ready for a run (living in Northern Ontario, this is the case for at least 5 months of the year). And living downtown it’s not just the…
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Note: This is a guest post from my friend Jason Fitzgerald from StrengthRunning.com. As a runner, you are 20 percent more likely to be injured next year than an NFL football player. That’s right. Some estimates put the injury rate for distance runners at 75% per year. That’s 3 out of every 4 runners who…
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