Year: 2009

  • Yee!

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    Yee!, originally uploaded by samwebster. Happy running!

  • Flying

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    I ran a short 8.4km tempo run today that included a 5km stretch of about 6:20 min/mile pace. Well, that was the plan. The distance is a bit weird because of the landmarks I use, but it’s enough for me to measure my pace on. The aim was to remind me how bad I’ll feel…

  • From runner to runner? (Part 1)

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    My sporting history looks like it has come full circle. But I expect it to disappear off again in a new direction. At school I played the usual sports, and had good speed playing rugby and whatnot. But the other boys got bigger and I didn’t, and my ball handling/kicking skills were never up to…

  • Chocolate Milk as a Post-Exercise Recovery Aid

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    Going back to the milk, protein, latte notes of an earlier post, here’s a study looking at the effectiveness of chocolate milk in recovery. What a lovely idea. The study used 9, highly trained cyclists, depleted their glycogen stores and compared the abilities of chocolate milk, Gatorade and Endurox R4 (a carboydrate recovery drink) to…

  • Riding with my shadow

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    Multisport athletes are very lucky. I’m getting very tired of running, both mentally and physically. That’s as it should be as I’m reaching high levels of fatigue in the weeks before a race, and my legs feel like they’re in top condition (aerobically anyway, but there is some imbalance and tightness). The last two weeks…

  • Post workout recovery latte

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    My caffe latte I, er, occasionally grab after a tough run or a strength workout at the gym may actually be a better recovery drink than I joked about in a previous post. In a full milk latte you’re looking at around 10g protein, 225 calories and 5g of fat. Fat’s a good thing for…

  • Girls 5 Up

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    Oh dear, I hear that the Girls are now 5-0 up on the Boys in the embryology lecture series quiz. The scores were very, very close again today at the end of the respiratory tract lecture. Thanks Jo, for keeping the series going. Boys, what have you got to do to win the next 5…

  • LG GD910 Watch Phone on Orange?

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    Gizmodo report on rumours that Orange will be selling the LG watch phone for £1,000. My contract is due for renewal next month too. Gizmodo link.

  • Teaching & Research

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    Teaching and research in universities. We do both, but which is most respected? Which is most important? Are the answers to these questions different for someone who teaches medicine? The Science of the Invisible blog notes the results of the latest Higher Education Academy reward and recognition survey, and includes some depressing comments and observations…

  • Wired: These Toes Were Made for Running

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    Short toes are much better for running. I’m not talking about people with particularly short toes, but it may explain more about the evolution of our feet and why our toes are so much shorter than chimps’. A recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology studies the importance of this and Wired spoke…