Link Love for the Week:

Workouts/Training

• 5 Common Myths About Strength Training for Distance Runners
• The Champion’s Workout: once in a while, do a workout that just kills you, it will help come tough times
• Great workouts to teach your body to clear lactate
• The Third Energy System, your free 7 seconds!
• My 2012 Best Practices Official List Basically, all I know
• Five pillars of Training Wisdom from legendary coaches. This reading should be mandatory.
• More Evidence in Favor of Plyometrics. Get it now?

Cross-Training

• Running Drills for Better Form, Speed, Explosiveness, and Efficiency. DO IT.
• If you need a stability routine, the Oregon Project has a great one with all the basics
• Essential Drills for Speed and Efficiency
• How Long Should You Wait Before Running Another Marathon via Runner’s Connect, which has GREAT articles.

Pacing/Racing

• Learn to Pace like a Pro, there’s a marathon section and talks about why you need to negative split
• Are you a race Warrior or Worrier? Great write-up by Olympian Molly Huddle 
• To practice pacing or to suicide-pace and drop, that’s the question
• Making Sense of Serial Racing, how and why racing every weekend can make you a better runner
• The Magic of Mantras, in case you need that extra push

Recovery

• You probably should be doing ice baths. If you don’t know how to start, here
• Give it a Rest Recovery is a very important goal post-race
• Exercise as Good as Medicine at Preventing Some Diseases. YES YES. YES.

Logistics

• What to pack for an out of town marathon. Or the list that will keep your sanity
• If you know someone whose keys are driving you crazy during runs, send them here. you’re welcome

Biomechanics

• Running Biomechanics: There is ONLY three human forms of locomotion
• Running Biomechanics: What is Proprioception and why is it important?
• Running Biomechanics: Watch Yourself!!
• Running Biomechanics:  It is NOT the shoe, it’s the FORM
• Running Biomechanics: NO to leaning
• Running Biomechanics: What are your arms doing?
• Running Biomechanics: Fix Your Cadence
• Running Biomechanics: Be the Best Runner You Can Be
• Running Biomechanics: Balance = Speed
• Running Biomechanics: Do you sit all day? 
• Running Biomechanics: Lightweight / Minimalist / Barefoot shoes are NOT the same thing
• Running Biomechanics: (don’t) give me a brake!

Fun/Entertainment

• 8 Stages of Marathon Running, From excitement to despair to elation in 26.2 miles. Hilarious.
• 20 Reasons Why Going To The Gym Is A Huge Waste Of Time. And Dangerous. Just Run
• Proper Race T-shirt etiquette. Or: why I wore an Ironman t-shirt last night!
• 40 best worst runner costumes. hilarious
• Video of Dr. Dan Lieberman in the Colbert Report show: Funny
• 28 Reasons Why Training For A Marathon Is The Worst Thing Ever, via Buzfeed. Hilarious!!
• 20 Great Marathon Spectator Signs we all need a laugh, who are you kidding?
• Trailer for “There Is No Finish Line” a Joan Benoit Samuelson documentary I am dying to see
• En espaniol, cuadritos divinos sobre correr, todos los dias. Re vale la pena.
• Esos locos que corren, amazing video/poem, in Spanish. Seriously amazing
• Mark Remy’s Motivational Posters. About running. Kinda. Definitely Hilarious
• The Tour De France Explained in Animation
• 26 Reasons you should be a runner via Buzzfeed. #17 and #25…!
• Sitting is worse than smoking. Slim Shady: please stand up
• The 42 Best Signs From The Boston Marathon

Nutrition

• Great video talk about training intensity and glycogen manipulation for optimal adaptation, the video is 20 minutes long but worth it (and somehow it matches a lot of what I did last year in training)
• My “Grainy” Research, and old post of mine from 2010 and a call to revamp your carbs. Bulgur will change your life, I promise.

Inspiration

• After Boston, Run the Recovery, by Mike Cassidy
• Be Your Own Hero, an 800 race that shows you how to set yourself on fire. Inspiring!
• Matt Long’s story, A Second Life. If this doesn’t move you, there is no hope for you.
• Matt Long’s Story, in video form. Amazing.
• Running Wisdom: Lessons From A Running Life, don’t forget to do it ALL, and have fun with it
• The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances, via the Oatmeal, one of the most amazing running writeups I ever laughed at. So funny and true, mostly for the runners who like to have fun (and not diet).
• Loved this Op Ed, about adversity in running: May the Wind be in your Face
• This woman is my new role model: Heather Dorniden’s Inspiring 600 Meter Race

Tools

• Age Grading Calculator. Because we can’t PR forever
• McMillan Calculator: enter a recent time to predict finish time for other distances and training pace
• Pace Calculator

New York City

• You’re a NYC runner if… feel free to add!
• Oldie but goodie: 50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New York City
• Central Park Running Map
• Prospect Park Running Map. I guess…

New York City Marathon

• Best pace bracelet for New York City Marathon (and others), adjusted for the course and…
• Bill Cunningham | On the Run: NYC Marathon version. Love Fashion and Bill? don’t miss this one.
• Inspiring post by Mike Cassidy about his NYC Marathon experience.
• Best NYC Marathon Tracking Sheet. Want to know exactly where and when your runner will be? Use this amazing spreadsheet by JackRabbit Sports.
• Last Minute NYC Marathon Tips & Running Advice by Toby, who is awesome!
• New York City Marathon Course Video
• New York City Marathon, a runner’s video, so inspiring, I dare you to not cry!

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