SPEED THRILLS

Early spring has returned to Hog Heaven.  It was cold and blustery--more like mid-March than late April--when I ventured out for a one-hour maintenance run this morning.  Frost is forecast for tonight.  The cool temps are forecast to last thru the weekend with a warm-up next week.   Tomorrow's schedule calls for cross training and Sunday is race day for me.  I'm doing a local 5k that will substitute for my last speed session before the May 6 Colorado Marathon.  After all this time (and training), there's light at the end of the tunnel.  Or, something else.

I saw this piece about an uncoming documentary about a town in Ethiopia where the preferred path to escape poverty is running.  The town is Bekoji and it has produced four Olympic gold medalists so far.  For more on the film, see here: http://www.tadias.com/04/18/2012/conversations-with-filmmakers-of-town-of-runners/

Here's a thoughtful and often provocative article from Running Times summing up thirty-five years of running progress, or not:  http://www.runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=25868&PageNum=1

OMIGOD!  This European study claims to find a link between soccer and sex.  See here: http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/europe/story/Study-says-soccer-is-like-sex-for-fans-041812
Why am I incredulous?  Because unlike sex, soccer is all foreplay.