July 25, 2006
SHIN SPLINTS IN RUNNING
According to the dictionary (1), shin splints is a term used loosely to describe an "over-use injury characterized by dull aching pain, associated with exercise, felt along the shins, either to the inside or outside of the main shin-bone ("tibia"). Shin splints in medical terms are called: "posterior and anterior tibial bone strain and fibular bone strain"(2). With some sense of humor T. Noakes in his book "Running Injuries"(2) wrote:" In the 1900s, before the running revolution, there was really one running injury. As long as you were a runner, and you hurt somewhere between the big toes and the...
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July 18, 2006
HOW TO TRAIN AND RACE IN THE HEAT - part 2
Body Temperature Limit One of the most vital components of a successful training in the heat is an ability to sustain the temperature of the body at a level allowing its efficient functioning. Professor T.Noakes in his book "Lore of Running"(1) wrote: "To live, we humans must keep our body temperatures within a narrow range (35 to 42° C) despite wide variations in environmental temperatures and differences in levels of physical activity. However, during exercise, the conversion of chemical energy stored in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) into the mechanical energy that permits exercise is extremely inefficient; as much as 70 per...
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July 11, 2006
HOW TO TRAIN AND RACE IN THE HEAT
It seems to be a simple question, but the answer is complicated. Heat is a complex problem, which should be approached from the points of view of your mental, psychological and physiological conditions, your technique, your food and drink, your outfit, shoes, your time of training and training load, the weather conditions during the race you are preparing for. Heat could be complicated by dry or humid air. If you live in a place where heat is normal, such as Arizona, South Florida, or Texas and you are supposed to race there, it is one story. But if you live...
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July 04, 2006
TO DRILL OR NOT TO DRILL?
An interesting question, isn't it? On the one hand, as we all know, everyone who learns something is doing it through drills - in swimming, tennis, golf, etc. On the other hand, it is boring stuff, especially in running, where our common sense doesn't even speak of drilling at all. In running we just run, and now we have this new fashion - Pose drills. Is it really so necessary to go through this "trouble"? And if there's no way we can do without it, then what's the minimum, we have to do? The problem sounds something like that, I...
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