Sorry, I can't open pdf's natively on my computer, so I need to save them then open them.
Nice work Tom! It's really an interesting subject, and I wish someone would write a slightly more substantive book on the topic (although I did enjoy 'Born to Run' quite a bit).
Wow, did you check out the youtube vid on the endurance hunt? That is some incredibly cool but crazy stuff.
I'm working my way through the two articles, and in some spots it's like McDougall just copy and pasted from them (which I guess makes sense, but still).
Yeah, I feel that he's committed a little pseudo plagiarism in his book because he didn't properly cite sources along the way when he nearly verbatim copied passages.
Of course, I haven't run in two weeks and am rethinking the spring marathon bid (american tobacco trail). I may convert it to the half marathon which my years of abuse should overcome without too much pain/disgust.
The other thing I thought of is booking someone to convert the marathon bid I've paid for into a relay - I meet someone at about the 1/2 and transfer numbers and foot marker - if they have it.
May have pissed a lady off at work today. I guess she's the resident "evolution genius" and she seemed to get quite huffy when I mentioned the 'evolved to run' theory.
Of course, she also couldn't understand that I was talking about running distance vs. speed for a good portion of the conversation.
Tom, have you read Why We Run: A Natural History? Thinking about picking this up as it seems to be a little more about the evolution of our running (and possibly even researched a little more, oooh!).
I have a copy of Once A Runner if you're interested. I think it is modelled on Frank Shorter (last US Olympic Marathon medalist) in his closing college years. It's a similar piece (amazon paired it with the others).
I think I'll go ahead and get this one, in spite of the reviews being as poorly organized as they claim the book described is. . . I may order it via Regulator (9th Street) rather than amazon, just cause I can.
ordered at the Regulator, and will pick up later this week/weekend. Again, I just saw my copy of once a runner if you want to pull a copy of that, I'm sure to visit Raleighwood shortly.
Definitely! Thanks for that, I'm sure you'll have to come to Raleigh if you ever want to catch a glimpse of Bebbefoot. I hear he's nine feet tall and shoots lightning bolts out of his eyes and fireballs (or black balls of tar) out of his arse!
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found it!
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/pdfs/2007c.pdf
Let's do this...
Harvard Paper.
Sorry, I can't open pdf's natively on my computer, so I need to save them then open them.
Nice work Tom! It's really an interesting subject, and I wish someone would write a slightly more substantive book on the topic (although I did enjoy 'Born to Run' quite a bit).
Wow, did you check out the youtube vid on the endurance hunt? That is some incredibly cool but crazy stuff.
I'm working my way through the two articles, and in some spots it's like McDougall just copy and pasted from them (which I guess makes sense, but still).
Yeah, I feel that he's committed a little pseudo plagiarism in his book because he didn't properly cite sources along the way when he nearly verbatim copied passages.
Of course, I haven't run in two weeks and am rethinking the spring marathon bid (american tobacco trail). I may convert it to the half marathon which my years of abuse should overcome without too much pain/disgust.
The other thing I thought of is booking someone to convert the marathon bid I've paid for into a relay - I meet someone at about the 1/2 and transfer numbers and foot marker - if they have it.
May have pissed a lady off at work today. I guess she's the resident "evolution genius" and she seemed to get quite huffy when I mentioned the 'evolved to run' theory.
Of course, she also couldn't understand that I was talking about running distance vs. speed for a good portion of the conversation.
Tom, have you read Why We Run: A Natural History? Thinking about picking this up as it seems to be a little more about the evolution of our running (and possibly even researched a little more, oooh!).
I have a copy of Once A Runner if you're interested. I think it is modelled on Frank Shorter (last US Olympic Marathon medalist) in his closing college years. It's a similar piece (amazon paired it with the others).
I think I'll go ahead and get this one, in spite of the reviews being as poorly organized as they claim the book described is. . . I may order it via Regulator (9th Street) rather than amazon, just cause I can.
ordered at the Regulator, and will pick up later this week/weekend. Again, I just saw my copy of once a runner if you want to pull a copy of that, I'm sure to visit Raleighwood shortly.
Definitely! Thanks for that, I'm sure you'll have to come to Raleigh if you ever want to catch a glimpse of Bebbefoot. I hear he's nine feet tall and shoots lightning bolts out of his eyes and fireballs (or black balls of tar) out of his arse!
If only someone could catch that on film! and post it!
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