Ok here we go party people, some quality videos of 2011 London Marathon and 2011 Boston Marathon. Looked around for the videos for ever and couldn't find until i come across these ones.
It is in vuki language so no idea what the commentator talks about. No doubt it is about how good they run.
Now London marathon. Emmanuel Mutai, you champion. Pure humble human being, nailed the race solo. Second last year, this year winner. Would like to see if Samuel Wanjiru was in good shape and see how he would have reacted to Mutai's pace.
Boston Marathon, what can i say. Fastest ever marathon in the whole wide wonderful worlds. Just over 2 hours and 3 minutes, 2:03:02 to be exact and the lucky winner is Geoffrey Mutai. It looks like it's time for Mutai's as wines of both Boston and London Marathons. Ryan Hall, you legend, the best pacemaker in the world. For 30 kilometers he single-handedly led the race. Kept the tempo, he ended becoming 4th but by doing so he ended up becoming the fastest American marathoner. It was funny to see, looks like bunch of Africans chasing a white guy. Now the sad thing about this race is even though it was fasted ever race, it is not qualified for world record as the runners had favorable wind and down hill. Weeel personally i think it should count why, as tail wind is luck and luck as to be part of sport.
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Inspiration Inspiration and inspiration
2011 New York half marathon, what can i say, wish i was there. Here is an link to the entire race video. http://www.livestream.com/nyrr/video?clipId=pla_bf5bd51d-e6df-485c-8849-614a4256a580&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb
Mo Farah is awesome. Super super finish. Hopefully he'll take the 10000m gold at London Olympics. Who knows, he might win the marathon instead. Heaps of respect and really good example of work ethic.
Mo Farah is awesome. Super super finish. Hopefully he'll take the 10000m gold at London Olympics. Who knows, he might win the marathon instead. Heaps of respect and really good example of work ethic.
Monday, 7 March 2011
Nike Lunar Racer 2
Nike Lunar Racer 2
Hello to Earth from Lunar. When I saw Nike Lunar Racer 2 shoes online, i didn't know what I am into. Researched heavily on various blogs, forums, comments and Nike website. Couldn't find many negatives. So decided to give it a go. Most people said when you are buying these make sure to buy half size up. Say you are 8 1/2 UK size. So go for 9. So not being able to buy these in Melbourne. decided to try the luck online and that ship to Straaaaalia. Along came runningwarehouse.com This is a good website. Loads of info and options. Rather than going for one pair diced to try my luck in two. One size 8 1/2 and the other 9 and that being 9 1/2 and 10 in US size after add 1 to UK. Thought what ever shoe fits might as well wear it.
So place the order with a pair of brand spanking new Lunar Elite 2+_!@$* . Lunar Elite 2 deserves another post of its own. It is that good i say. So fedexed they say on the webiste. After 7 days it arrived So had to pick it up from their deport. Not going to write about why. But it was one of those missions across west Melbourne towards Airport. These rides across Melbourne are all accidental workouts. My client is at Highett, south east melbourne by the coast. I live in North Carlton. So the whole journey took 2 hours on my crappy push bike. Anyways when i opened the package, it was wow wow wow....... Big time running geek moments. The shoes felt right.
The shoes are extremely light weight. Packaging say's 7 ounces. So i decided to find out how many grams to an ounce. Rather than talking about how many grams to an ounce, brothers talking about how they got ripped off in weed deals about the wight not being correct. Any ways about 30 grams i found out. So 7 ounces by 30g equals 1Kg. They are feather weight. To my surprise the middle of the shoe sole is rigid and excellent support. It does not bent like Nike free range shoes. Cushioning is amazing.
So the first run, had my doubts as usual with a new pair. Injury worries, fitting worries, bounce worries, durability worries, blisters worries, toe nail rip off worries. To my surprise, none of that it was no worries mate. It hold really nice. Felt like flying. I dont think you can run slow with these ones. They have the inbuilt ingredients to fly. Definition of fling is, you let go and miss the ground. The further you are away from ground you are flying for the time being. It passed the first test and was very happy with the purchase. Only thing i didnt do with the Luanr Racer was making love with it. It was that good pair of shoes.
To my sadness found out that Nike has discontinued these shoes and now they have brought back the original Luanr Racer. Norah Jones said "Dont Know why". Me say the same. Duncan Kibbett did a marathon- Two Hours and 4 minuets wearing these once. So can be that bad to discontinue. Hopefully nike would come with a better one soon.
Hello to Earth from Lunar. When I saw Nike Lunar Racer 2 shoes online, i didn't know what I am into. Researched heavily on various blogs, forums, comments and Nike website. Couldn't find many negatives. So decided to give it a go. Most people said when you are buying these make sure to buy half size up. Say you are 8 1/2 UK size. So go for 9. So not being able to buy these in Melbourne. decided to try the luck online and that ship to Straaaaalia. Along came runningwarehouse.com This is a good website. Loads of info and options. Rather than going for one pair diced to try my luck in two. One size 8 1/2 and the other 9 and that being 9 1/2 and 10 in US size after add 1 to UK. Thought what ever shoe fits might as well wear it.
So place the order with a pair of brand spanking new Lunar Elite 2+_!@$* . Lunar Elite 2 deserves another post of its own. It is that good i say. So fedexed they say on the webiste. After 7 days it arrived So had to pick it up from their deport. Not going to write about why. But it was one of those missions across west Melbourne towards Airport. These rides across Melbourne are all accidental workouts. My client is at Highett, south east melbourne by the coast. I live in North Carlton. So the whole journey took 2 hours on my crappy push bike. Anyways when i opened the package, it was wow wow wow....... Big time running geek moments. The shoes felt right.
The shoes are extremely light weight. Packaging say's 7 ounces. So i decided to find out how many grams to an ounce. Rather than talking about how many grams to an ounce, brothers talking about how they got ripped off in weed deals about the wight not being correct. Any ways about 30 grams i found out. So 7 ounces by 30g equals 1Kg. They are feather weight. To my surprise the middle of the shoe sole is rigid and excellent support. It does not bent like Nike free range shoes. Cushioning is amazing.
So the first run, had my doubts as usual with a new pair. Injury worries, fitting worries, bounce worries, durability worries, blisters worries, toe nail rip off worries. To my surprise, none of that it was no worries mate. It hold really nice. Felt like flying. I dont think you can run slow with these ones. They have the inbuilt ingredients to fly. Definition of fling is, you let go and miss the ground. The further you are away from ground you are flying for the time being. It passed the first test and was very happy with the purchase. Only thing i didnt do with the Luanr Racer was making love with it. It was that good pair of shoes.
To my sadness found out that Nike has discontinued these shoes and now they have brought back the original Luanr Racer. Norah Jones said "Dont Know why". Me say the same. Duncan Kibbett did a marathon- Two Hours and 4 minuets wearing these once. So can be that bad to discontinue. Hopefully nike would come with a better one soon.
Monday, 21 February 2011
Me me me and my running dilemma
Dilemmas dilemmas and more dilemmas. I don't know whether this is an excuse or or whether listing to my heart. Why; it is monday and it is a running day and i cannot get my self out of the door. The excuse section of the mind; brings in the coldness, it is 17 Celsius out there. Many countries it is summer weather. It is dark. There is still sun light. Pain in the legs. After heavy weekend of training on the hilly track, yep the legs are bit sore. I have done enough exercises for today. May be. I was on the bike for nearly three hours. 1 1/2 in the morning and another same on the evening and that is thanks to my mini le Tour de France to work, from Carlton North - Melbourne to East Moorabin. Not the Princess park again, It is that awesome princess park is up the road from where i live and i like running there a lot. Sometimes too much of too good is bad.... So what other excuses can i find.......
One side of the brain says just go for it. The other side, stay put for today and train the next there days hard. The sun comes out tomorrow...... Ok there is a mood for everything. If you are not on the mood dont do it. Have to do something that i enjoy, like doing what make me happy. Running sure do make me happy and i enjoy it a lot. But sometimes the enthusiasm is not there. Today if i didn't do that bike ride, i know to be sure, to be sure i would have been out there and running away like a bird now. I cannot blame the bike ride as an excuse. Sure it is good training. Cycling i reckon is one of the best cross training for running. It works really good on all parts of the legs plus the impact on the joints are minimal. Weeeeeelll with running all those pounding on the concrete sure has it's effects. But same time it increases the muscle strength. Strength leads to less impact of the joints as muscles do a load balancing.
So; i think today have to give it a miss for running, but not going to be a couch potato. But shall do a cardio and a weight training session at my dodgy home gym. Personally i dont think there is any other sport that has the same constant intensity to the heart as running. It is that it is constant hard work on the legs for a long period of time. Going hard at it is a plus, the distance make it pure endurance work out. But with running, there are speed workouts, tempo runs there are slow runs, there are technical runs, there are run for your life sessions.... So take cross training as add value to running and get on with it.
Have a great day
One side of the brain says just go for it. The other side, stay put for today and train the next there days hard. The sun comes out tomorrow...... Ok there is a mood for everything. If you are not on the mood dont do it. Have to do something that i enjoy, like doing what make me happy. Running sure do make me happy and i enjoy it a lot. But sometimes the enthusiasm is not there. Today if i didn't do that bike ride, i know to be sure, to be sure i would have been out there and running away like a bird now. I cannot blame the bike ride as an excuse. Sure it is good training. Cycling i reckon is one of the best cross training for running. It works really good on all parts of the legs plus the impact on the joints are minimal. Weeeeeelll with running all those pounding on the concrete sure has it's effects. But same time it increases the muscle strength. Strength leads to less impact of the joints as muscles do a load balancing.
So; i think today have to give it a miss for running, but not going to be a couch potato. But shall do a cardio and a weight training session at my dodgy home gym. Personally i dont think there is any other sport that has the same constant intensity to the heart as running. It is that it is constant hard work on the legs for a long period of time. Going hard at it is a plus, the distance make it pure endurance work out. But with running, there are speed workouts, tempo runs there are slow runs, there are technical runs, there are run for your life sessions.... So take cross training as add value to running and get on with it.
Have a great day
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Heal the heal pain
Heal the pain, make it a better leg, for me and for you and every other runner. There people running with heel pain. If we care enough for the pain, it would go away, hopefully. This heel pain has been a nagging injury for the past two months and hoping that it would go away, so decided to take a week off from running.
Symptoms of the heel pain. The pain arise only if if i touch the heel or at the begging of the run. It is unberable at the beging of the run and give five minits or more, it is gone and dont even realise it was there. It is a bizzar injury. It does not affect running other than the first few minutes. Yes it hurts if you presurise that area. It is worring in a way.
Heel joint of the leg is like the axle of the body. Without that no more mobile, let alone running. So if the pain persist, best is to see a doctor but me being me dont consult a doctor, but going with the flow. I read somewhere the vitamin C is a good remedy for this. So been taking bucket loads of vitamin C. It is heart breaking to take a week off from running. Hey, such as life. If the this nagging injury does not go away. Have to keep on running with the pain. Cannot afford a lengthy break. If it gives a permanent damage. Be it. But do not recommend this approach unless you are a sort of, see what happens sort of a person.
What can i say; have to take things as it comes and see this as how i make out of this injury. Because of this i have been putting more emphasis on cross training. Especially body and arms strengthening. I even use the stationary bike to do arm work out. How, by removing the seat pole and use the arms to rotate the peddles. Very clever:-0 daaaaa......
Symptoms of the heel pain. The pain arise only if if i touch the heel or at the begging of the run. It is unberable at the beging of the run and give five minits or more, it is gone and dont even realise it was there. It is a bizzar injury. It does not affect running other than the first few minutes. Yes it hurts if you presurise that area. It is worring in a way.
Heel joint of the leg is like the axle of the body. Without that no more mobile, let alone running. So if the pain persist, best is to see a doctor but me being me dont consult a doctor, but going with the flow. I read somewhere the vitamin C is a good remedy for this. So been taking bucket loads of vitamin C. It is heart breaking to take a week off from running. Hey, such as life. If the this nagging injury does not go away. Have to keep on running with the pain. Cannot afford a lengthy break. If it gives a permanent damage. Be it. But do not recommend this approach unless you are a sort of, see what happens sort of a person.
What can i say; have to take things as it comes and see this as how i make out of this injury. Because of this i have been putting more emphasis on cross training. Especially body and arms strengthening. I even use the stationary bike to do arm work out. How, by removing the seat pole and use the arms to rotate the peddles. Very clever:-0 daaaaa......
Friday, 14 January 2011
Running and bouncing
Bounce is very important for running. I've seen folks humping up and down roads and paths as if there is no tomorrow. It is like humping like a rabbit!. Just you wait!
With wayward bounce, tomorrow is the concern path. Today is is all good, jumping, feels goods, feels fast and seems like it is all happening. I have experienced this as that is why i can write. I guess it is where I am going that matters rather than where I have been.
Say for example get a rubber ball and bounce it on the concrete, tarmac, gravel and grass. The bounce will be higher on concrete and then tarmac - then gravel and then grass. If you put rose peddles in to the equation if would be the lucky last and we can use that to out imagination as we are not going in to details about running on rose pedals. So as we run, with each step we put 2 to four times out body weight on our landing feet. That is lot of weight. The heavier you are more the the weight you put on your feet(no bull!). If you tend to bounce, the higher you go up with every stride and then one that goes up has to come down in the real world and the landing force is higher with higher you go. Why; that is thanks to a thing gravity. If you think I am lying ask Sir Newton if you can find him. If it wasnt for gravity i would be writing about flying than running. We all get high as kites. Happy days.......
So what are the consequences of bouncing. Weeeeelll it can be advantaged in one way and it can be disadvantaged in another way. Bounce is not bad. You need that reverse force from your stride to kick further. But has to be on a moderation. This would help you to increase the stride angle. If you increase your stride angel less number of strides for the same distance.
If you bounce way to much than you need. You just bounce up and down like a rabbit and going no where. I have seen folks just go up and down and their feet hit their back side but their stride angle is so small. That is waste of energy. It is like the bob effect in mountain biking. To much energy wasted on the shocks of the shoes and just going up and down. Also this is ingredients for leg knee and ankle injuries. It is the strain from landing from higher vertical elevation. If you tend to land on the back of your foot this makes this even worse as you are not letting your body properly balance your weight when you land and all the force goes directly on to lower part of the feet. The heavier you are the more strainer it gets.
So what is the best. If you closely study the professional long distance running athletes, there vertical movement is near zero. There head is always level parallel to the ground. So there is a bounce and bounce is offset by the stride angle. So when you run make sure you get a good vision rather than things around you go up and down. Just make sure it is like walking. Keep the head straight, body slightly forward and well relaxed. Also try to land on the ball of your feet (mid section) and then back of the feet and then kick forward. So it is not an overnight cure. Practice takes time. Best is to go slow for couple of days. Just concentrate on your feet and vision. Keep close attention to details on the stride angle.
These days i try to do two days of slow running between the long run and mid week fast run. This is purely to concentrate on the way i run. I may not be perfect but i always look out for things to improve myself. Doing it for me as no one else would do it for me i guess.
I personally think a video review would do a world of good to your running technique. I haven't done this personally but i guess it is good. Also on those slow recovery running days make sure you keep an eye on your own body parts rather than other passing bye opposite sexes body parts. Can be entertaining but may not be good for you in the long run!
With wayward bounce, tomorrow is the concern path. Today is is all good, jumping, feels goods, feels fast and seems like it is all happening. I have experienced this as that is why i can write. I guess it is where I am going that matters rather than where I have been.
Say for example get a rubber ball and bounce it on the concrete, tarmac, gravel and grass. The bounce will be higher on concrete and then tarmac - then gravel and then grass. If you put rose peddles in to the equation if would be the lucky last and we can use that to out imagination as we are not going in to details about running on rose pedals. So as we run, with each step we put 2 to four times out body weight on our landing feet. That is lot of weight. The heavier you are more the the weight you put on your feet(no bull!). If you tend to bounce, the higher you go up with every stride and then one that goes up has to come down in the real world and the landing force is higher with higher you go. Why; that is thanks to a thing gravity. If you think I am lying ask Sir Newton if you can find him. If it wasnt for gravity i would be writing about flying than running. We all get high as kites. Happy days.......
So what are the consequences of bouncing. Weeeeelll it can be advantaged in one way and it can be disadvantaged in another way. Bounce is not bad. You need that reverse force from your stride to kick further. But has to be on a moderation. This would help you to increase the stride angle. If you increase your stride angel less number of strides for the same distance.
If you bounce way to much than you need. You just bounce up and down like a rabbit and going no where. I have seen folks just go up and down and their feet hit their back side but their stride angle is so small. That is waste of energy. It is like the bob effect in mountain biking. To much energy wasted on the shocks of the shoes and just going up and down. Also this is ingredients for leg knee and ankle injuries. It is the strain from landing from higher vertical elevation. If you tend to land on the back of your foot this makes this even worse as you are not letting your body properly balance your weight when you land and all the force goes directly on to lower part of the feet. The heavier you are the more strainer it gets.
So what is the best. If you closely study the professional long distance running athletes, there vertical movement is near zero. There head is always level parallel to the ground. So there is a bounce and bounce is offset by the stride angle. So when you run make sure you get a good vision rather than things around you go up and down. Just make sure it is like walking. Keep the head straight, body slightly forward and well relaxed. Also try to land on the ball of your feet (mid section) and then back of the feet and then kick forward. So it is not an overnight cure. Practice takes time. Best is to go slow for couple of days. Just concentrate on your feet and vision. Keep close attention to details on the stride angle.
These days i try to do two days of slow running between the long run and mid week fast run. This is purely to concentrate on the way i run. I may not be perfect but i always look out for things to improve myself. Doing it for me as no one else would do it for me i guess.
I personally think a video review would do a world of good to your running technique. I haven't done this personally but i guess it is good. Also on those slow recovery running days make sure you keep an eye on your own body parts rather than other passing bye opposite sexes body parts. Can be entertaining but may not be good for you in the long run!
Sunday, 9 January 2011
The bike shed - awwwwwwwsome
So what does a bike shed got to do with running. It is like a fish needs a bicycle. I personally think cycling is the best form of cross traiing for runners. Why, is is less stress on the knees. Get a good worksout without giving much stress on the heart. Can do it stationary bike or anywhere. It is frees as beer other than spending few moolas to get the freedom machine.
Now the Bike Hut at the CERES(Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies) and it is a community environment park. Where it is. It is based in sunny Melbourne- Australia and exact location is East Brunswick by the awesomely beautiful and ever flowing Merry Creek. It is heaven on earth. If you have agypsie heart, this is one of those places to be. If i can close your eyes and imagine what the Hobit Village in this day in age looks like. Weeeell this is it. It has lots of organicaly grown vegitable farms. People selling them all over the place. Organic retaurants, organinc clothig, organic frigin everything under the sun. So if you are an organinc sort of person no doubt you would like this. Only thing is you would get ant Wide Screen, HDTV LCD LED DVD ADHD WTF TVs in this place. It is a down to earth experience for all you wonderful peoples.
So the bike hut is part of this. They recycle the bikes and let the masses ride a pushie for the minimum cost. This joint bike heaven. Bikes galore. Bike everywhere. They have a arch made out from bike wheels. You would get Lance Armstrong sort of bikes here. But you can get a aetrage decenet bike for no cost. There are voultiers giving you advice how to fix the bikes. Tools are free to use. A membership is $10 for year if you are interested. Only cost is the parts and even they are cheap as chips. You can help your self for thousands of bkes and feel free to rip them apart to your wish as long as you pay for the parts.
Soon as i saw this place i knew this is a my kind of place. It just feels right to recycle bikes, rather than usning to fill junk dumps. Atleast some peron get to use an anwnted bike. All people work here are here to share a pashion like pashion fruit. I guess they use the proceeed to improve the awareness of bike riding and maintain the place.
What else can i tell you about the place. So my experence. I went there to buy couple of bike wheels as both bikes i have, had twisted back wheels. It is that my 3 hour bike ride to work and my stupid moves on bike paths may have caused them to twist and shout. Im like Come on, come on, come on, baby now...... have to get this bikes fixed. So they have separate section for bike wheels. A sea of wheels and jump right in to get what i want. So the the gentlmen who was in chargeIf you prefer a mechanic do all the work for you then it is best to go to any other bike shops. said i should chose an aluminum wheel and he is truly right. Cost for two near brand new wheel $15. It woudnt get reasonable than that. So lovely people if you want to get your bike fixed, place to be is where else but Bike Hut.
Now the Bike Hut at the CERES(Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies) and it is a community environment park. Where it is. It is based in sunny Melbourne- Australia and exact location is East Brunswick by the awesomely beautiful and ever flowing Merry Creek. It is heaven on earth. If you have agypsie heart, this is one of those places to be. If i can close your eyes and imagine what the Hobit Village in this day in age looks like. Weeeell this is it. It has lots of organicaly grown vegitable farms. People selling them all over the place. Organic retaurants, organinc clothig, organic frigin everything under the sun. So if you are an organinc sort of person no doubt you would like this. Only thing is you would get ant Wide Screen, HDTV LCD LED DVD ADHD WTF TVs in this place. It is a down to earth experience for all you wonderful peoples.
So the bike hut is part of this. They recycle the bikes and let the masses ride a pushie for the minimum cost. This joint bike heaven. Bikes galore. Bike everywhere. They have a arch made out from bike wheels. You would get Lance Armstrong sort of bikes here. But you can get a aetrage decenet bike for no cost. There are voultiers giving you advice how to fix the bikes. Tools are free to use. A membership is $10 for year if you are interested. Only cost is the parts and even they are cheap as chips. You can help your self for thousands of bkes and feel free to rip them apart to your wish as long as you pay for the parts.
Soon as i saw this place i knew this is a my kind of place. It just feels right to recycle bikes, rather than usning to fill junk dumps. Atleast some peron get to use an anwnted bike. All people work here are here to share a pashion like pashion fruit. I guess they use the proceeed to improve the awareness of bike riding and maintain the place.
What else can i tell you about the place. So my experence. I went there to buy couple of bike wheels as both bikes i have, had twisted back wheels. It is that my 3 hour bike ride to work and my stupid moves on bike paths may have caused them to twist and shout. Im like Come on, come on, come on, baby now...... have to get this bikes fixed. So they have separate section for bike wheels. A sea of wheels and jump right in to get what i want. So the the gentlmen who was in chargeIf you prefer a mechanic do all the work for you then it is best to go to any other bike shops. said i should chose an aluminum wheel and he is truly right. Cost for two near brand new wheel $15. It woudnt get reasonable than that. So lovely people if you want to get your bike fixed, place to be is where else but Bike Hut.
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