75 and Still Running

Friends Helly Visser and Roger Davis lift weights together three times a week, cycle once a week and do yoga every morning. But it is the runs they go on almost every other day that keeps them a young 75 and 74 years old. "Taking up running has changed my life," says Visser, a competitive endurance runner. 'I just kept going at it and it's become a part of me.'

Stretching the Truth?

LIMBERING up does not prevent muscle soreness or reduce the risk of injury, according to scientists. Studies have shown that stretching before and after exercise will prevent only one injury every 23 years. Stretching may only reduce muscle soreness by 2 per cent. The review of five studies, involving 77 subjects, was published this week in the British Medical Journal.

52 Day, 3,100 Mile Foot Race

Think 100 miles is long way to run? The Self-Transcendence race in Queens, New York, is a whopping 3,100 miles. Participants have 52 days to complete the distance. This year, the race ends at noon on August 3.

Two long dark braids sprout from the base of her skull, which is covered by a mesh cap and a head-lamp. With her rugged-looking Montrails laced tight and triple-knotted for good luck, she flicks on her light. She looks like she's prepared to go spelunking in a cave but instead sets out at a brisk trot, sticking to a trail that traces the south face of the Boise Foothills. It's 5 a.m. and darker than the inside of a cow, but Joëlle Vaught's eyes glisten with an alert focus that keeps her on her feet.

A Sub-2 Hour Marathon?

 

Geoffrey Mutai, the winner of the 2011 Boston Marathon, came very close to two hours in his finish time last year. He set a course-record, world-best time of 2:03:02.

Yet when asked about the possibility of an under-two-hour marathon, he sounded doubtful.

What is orthorexia?

No fat, no carbs, no wheat — and hours of punishing exercise every day. How a dangerously obsessive quest for the perfect body has become the new middle-class eating disorder I've been told I'm risking arthritis and brittle bones and I'm often tired out. But I just can't stop...

WE ALL know the type. They never let wheat, yeast or dairy pass their lips. They've cut out alcohol and caffeine. They're obsessed with healthy eating — yet every day, they look more unwell and unhappier.

These are the symptoms of a condition called 'orthorexia' by dieticians. It is, apparently, on the increase — particularly in professional women in their 30s.

Trail Running: It Takes a Different Mindset

HUDSON - Running is running, right? Well, trail running is a little different from road running, according to people who do both. Here's their advice to new trail runners:

Be committed

Trail running takes more motivation. "It's a lot easier to run out your front door," said Eddie Lloyd. A trail runner may drive 20 miles to get to his or her favorite trail.

1,000 Miles Per Year

Erick Larson runs close to a thousand miles a year.

"I do four miles a day, four days a week," said the 60-year-old businessman.

It's something he's been doing since March 2000. He figures if he ran in one direction he'd be close to halfway around the world.

Food and Mood

Can you change your mood with food?

Perhaps, but it could be all in your mind.

Running and Eating

Every January, many people start working out, hoping to lose weight. But as studies attest, exercise often produces little or no weight loss — and even weight gain — and resolutions are soon abandoned. But new science suggests that if you stick with the right kind of exercise, you may change how your body interacts with food. It’s more than a matter of burning calories; exercise also affects hormones.

Should You Ease Off Your Workout?

It was strange. I had just been hired as an editor for Triathlete magazine in the spring of 1994, and as I leafed through a decade of back issues I noticed that triathlon superstar Mark Allen seemed to begrowing more muscular as he aged. What was happening?

Is Aspirin a Wonder Drug?

Aspirin Might Be Soon Used As an Alternative to Many Treatments for Cancer

A new research has proposed that the patients suffering from bowel cancer, if consume aspirin every day, then their chances of dying from the disease declines by one-third.