Clayton Young will chase the AR on a torn hamstring
Clayton Young landed in Chicago with a torn hamstring and says it has not hurt in a single workout. He is still going after the American record on Sunday.
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Races and results
Young in Chicago, hamstring quiet, American record still the plan
Clayton Young has arrived in Chicago and says his torn hamstring has not been hurting in workouts, and he is still chasing the American record Sunday, per Chris Chavez. Charles Hicks, who ran 2:04:35 in the spring, says he trained at altitude in Park City instead of Eugene.
We've had to take it a mile at a time, a day at a time, to make sure the hamstring is OK.
Lost tape shows Rojo pacing Ndereba to a 2:18:47 world record
A long-lost VHS broadcast of the 2001 Chicago Marathon surfaced on YouTube, and LetsRun co-founder Robert Johnson used it to revisit the day he was hired to pace Catherine Ndereba to her 2:18:47 world record. Watching it back for the first time, he found two Olympic champions picking apart his running form on live TV.
She broke the record. And me.
How they train
New study says 100 grams of carbs an hour beats 60
James Morton posted a new study showing performance benefits of 100 grams of carbohydrate per hour over 60 across four hours of cycling. Brady Holmer's verdict: "Good week to be a carb." The account LoreofRunning pushed back on the mechanism, arguing very high intakes delay fatigue by something other than fueling the muscle.
beginning of the end for metabolic theory that muscle glycogen/exogenous CHO is obligatory fuel for exercise performance