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new Fitgerald running book

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Elite runners have long relied on technology to analyze performance, maximize training, and challenge the competitive boundaries of the sport. Serious runners long sought the same advantages only to be confronted with a costly and complicated process. Not any longer. The Runner's Edge takes you...

by User avatar staley33

Movie Review: Million Dollar Baby (2004)

The more I think about this movie, the more I love it. I am fully convinced that Clint Eastwood is becoming a better filmmaker with each passing year. Million Dollar Baby is a movie about Frankie (Eastwood), a grizzled old "cut-man" who owns a boxing gym. He is the type of man who was old...

by User avatar Pug

Book Review: Best Efforts - Kenny Moore (running)

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Moore himself was a world class marathoner in the early 1970's, and has written a variety of great running articles, mostly for Sports Illustrated. Moore also co-wrote "Without Limits", one of the Prefontaine movies and appears in "Fire on the Track", the much better Pre documentary. Pre was...

by User avatar CoachCraig

Funny running situations?

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Let’s have a laugh or two! These running issues can get very serious, and it’s actually a fun activity. Share your funny running situations with us, and tell funny situations you’ve found yourself in while you were running. I once get up very early in order to have my regular...

by User avatar renaud

Movie Review: Dirty Dancing (1987)

A film by Emile Ardolino This is perhaps the one movie that I never expected to ever watch. Nothing that I had heard about it made it sound like something I would have any interest in whatsoever. I had even less of an expectation that should I actually see the movie that I would actually like it....

by User avatar Guest

Thrusday Running Joke

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While out one morning in the park a jogger found a brand new tennis ball. Seeing no one around that it might belong to, he slipped it into the pocket of his shorts. Later, on his way home, he stopped at the pedestrian crossing, waiting for the lights to change. A blonde girl standing next to him...

by User avatar andydp

Book Review: Holding the Line - Barbara Kingsolver

In "Holding the Line", author Barbara Kingsolver ("The Poisonwood Bible", "Animal Dreams") offers us an account of the strike at the 1983 Morenci Copper Mine in Arizona. Kingsolver was working as a reporter at the time and spent quite a bit of time with the women involved in the strike. She gives...

by User avatar Pug

Book Review: American Soldier by General Tommy Franks

General Tommy Franks was commander of CENTCOM (Central Command) during Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. This is an autobiography of that goes through his boyhood life in Midland, Texas to the jungles of Vietnam, posts in Germany, Korea, Washington DC, Tampa, and ending in the desert of Iraq....

by User avatar Cappy

Book Review - Marathoning - Bill Rodgers

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This book is an interesting mixture of auto-biography, training and racing tips for the marathon, and misc thoughts on the sport of running. It is actually a rather poorly organized book, especially considering Rodgers had a professional writer assisting him. It is often scattered enough, and...

by User avatar CoachCraig

Book Review: Beyond Band of Brothers, Dick Winters, MAJ USA

This book is an autobiography of the company/battalion commander of the Co. E/2nd battalion/506 PIR/101st Airborne during WWII, Major Richard "Dick" Winters made famous by the HBO emmy award winning mini series and Best Selling Book, "Band of Brothers" Maj. Winters recounts his pre war life,...

by User avatar copteacher