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Web links for April 2nd through June 16th
By booyaa | June 17, 2007
These are my links for April 2nd through June 16th:
- Going Long - The Best of Endurance Planet - An 8 minute podcast compilation of advice from some of the best ultra runners out there.
- How to Be Fish-Like - The Best of Endurance Planet - A fantastic 7 min podcast on how to improve your swim
- The Poetic Runner: Dealing With Injuries - I - Learning how to cope with my ITB thanks to Rajeev
- CrankyRunner: An Open Letter to The All-Seeing - Runners loving what they do. Running.
- Long Light - xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe - Traffic light timing joke
- RunningAHEAD - Topic: RunningAHEAD licensed training log to Runner’s World - Looks like Runnersworld have been busy. First RW UK acquire fetcheveryone.com. Then their US counterparts license RunningAHEAD’s training log software. This will be a separate installation will be RW branded. Congrats Eric!
- The Joy of Running « One Mile To Go - An inspirating collection of reasons why running rocks!
- A Trail Runner’s Blog: Fighting My Demons at the Mt. Diablo 50k - Another great post by Scott, but bring a hanky, you may shed a tear. I know I came over all funny after reading it.
- iPhone release date; ad campaign begins | last100 - Is there anyone who isn’t waiting to pounce on this phone? A great run down of the new iPhone adverts. This is how you sell a phone.
- Beat the Doldrums » Complete Running Network - 6 great ways to get out of a rut or beat the post “big” race blues
- 5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good - lifehack.org - if you ever needed to “get” twitter, here’s 5 reasons to
- ASP Quick Reference Page - Has all the functions and language statements
- ASP Encode/Decode Functions - Useful builtin functions, I used HTMLencode to safely escape some transaction id which used angle brackets (<>) to indicate the beginning and end of the string
- Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor | last100 - Wow, finally something from Microsoft that I /actually/ want.
- Apple - Support - Mac 101 - Customize Your Mac - Pimp my mac (sorry). How to trick your mac with the latest icons and wallpaper. It appears that you can’t change your system volume without a low level hack or candybar…
- hugin - Panorama photo stitcher - Current version 0.7 isn’t stable for the mac, so download 0.6 for now. Haven’t tried this yet, but will give it go soon!
- Google Calendar goes mobile | last100 - Finally, google calendar for my blackberry!
- Lauren Fleshman » Blog Archive » Training on Vacation - I really enjoy reading blogs by pros, it’s just nice to know they’re just like us mere mortals. Lauren’s got great advice on adding training to your holidays. Don’t knock it, if you’re training for a marathon you can be certain a long weekend or longer br
- My Southern California Trail Running: My Pet Peeve Thursday - This is an excellent chart that explains the type of feet runners have and the type of shoes they need!
- Running in the heat « Run to Win » - Blaine giving sound advice on running in the heat, rather apt as we approach summer.
- What is a tempo run? « Run to Win » - An excellent blog post by Blaine on the reason why to include Tempo runs in your training programme
- Retail Therapy: Injinji Performance Sock » Complete Running Network - I would love a pair of these, but I couldn’t find anyone who sells them in the UK. Admittedly I only googled
- Kevin Sayers UltRunR Site - Kevin’s got a pretty comprehensive running site. Never mind the fact it’s for Ultra runners, there’s lots of info us runners and triathletes can take away from here.
- Optimal Training: Goals, Benchmarks and Expectations - Without all three of these areas having the same level of attention, you can’t expect to excel.
- Changing your running style. Comment crawl #3 - “For years, most authors have been telling us that we should stick with a particular form…We start off as…plodders, but as we accumulate sufficient mileage…our bodies naturally…find good form. To…quicken this process is…dicing with disaster.”
- BlackBerryInsight » BlackBerry Shortcut Collection - A list of really useful keyboard shortcuts for the blackberry
- BlackBerryInsight » Software Review: MobileTracker for BlackBerry 8800 and BlackBerry 8830 - This software uses the built in GPS device of the 8800 (full sized keyboard pearl) to track your movements, even elevation. It then turns this into a KML (Google Earth file) so you can see where you went. I wonder if it tracks speed? Whilst this won’t rep
- Beginners running -Week one of a three week program - This looks like an incredibly promising walk to run training programme. I will be following its progress very closely.
- Money-Saving Tips for Runners » Complete Running Network - These are the kind of tips that I want to use on my blog. I love the idea of using fruit juice and water as an isotonic drink. And who’d thought slim fast could be used as a recovery drink!
- The Capital Times - Local - Bike helmet crushed, but head fine - An amazing story of a biker who survives a truck going over his head because he wore a helmet (via Nancy Toby: Run Big!)
- A Trail Runner’s Blog: Racing the 2007 Quicksliver 50k - A fantastic race report. Also mentions chia seeds as a way to slow down the body’s hydration system. Does anyone know how this works?
- Optimal Training: Risk and Performance Rewards - Excellent article about the pros and cons of risk taking. I like the descriptions of conservative, risky and reckless. I think I actually in the risky, when I thought I would be in the conservative band.
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