After more than four decades of daily running, Ottawa native Lois Bastien has finally stopped. On July 16, the 88-year-old ended her streak at 16,526 consecutive days, a run that began in 1980 and stretched across nearly half a century. The decision was not made lightly, as arthritis in her foot made it impossible to ... Read more The post Lois Bastien Ends Her Historic 45-Year Running Streak at Age 88 appeared first on Marathon Handbook.| Marathon Handbook
For years, runners have been told to follow the 10 percent rule: don’t increase your weekly mileage by more than 10 percent, or you’ll end up injured. It’s been repeated by coaches, built into training plans, and even embedded into algorithms on GPS running watches. But new research is calling that advice into question, and ... Read more The post The 10% Rule: New Study Suggests We’ve Been Doing It Wrong This Whole Time appeared first on Marathon Handbook.| Marathon Handbook
As global temperatures continue to climb, runners face a brutal new normal: training and racing in extreme heat. Forecasts suggest that the summer of 2025 is on track to be the hottest on record worldwide. But for athletes chasing PRs, Boston Qualifiers, or finish-line redemption stories, quitting isn’t an option. The real question becomes: how ... Read more The post Here’s How Much the Heat Affects Your Running Speed appeared first on Marathon Handbook.| Marathon Handbook
Josh Ward, a radio personality for 99.1 The Sports Animal, marked his 40th birthday by running 40 miles in near-90-degree heat to raise money for Food for Kids, a program combating child hunger| The University of Tennessee Research Park at Cherokee Farm
If you like your ride firm, efficient and just a touch snappy, the On Cloudsurfer 2 is well worth a test run.| Mountain Life
Over the past two or three years, I’ve had the great pleasure of speaking to some pretty damn awesome people. Thanks to my work for the San… Read more "Jonathan, Cal, and Martinus: Three (Extra)Ordinary Runners You Need to Meet"| Hit the Road with Me
When they picked me up from the ground where I (partially involuntarily) sat down the moment I ran under the blue arch, I was half in a… Read more "Ultra X Morocco Day 2: Breaking the Bad Streak, Not Myself"| Hit the Road with Me
The globally shared set of GitLab runners for CI/CD jobs works well for building binaries, publishing images, and reaching out to publicly available endpoints for services and infrastructure building. But the ability to run a private, self-managed runner can grant pipelines entirely new levels of functionality on several fronts: Can communicate openly to private, internal ... GitLab: self-managed runner for CI/CD jobs on GCP VM instances| Fabian Lee : Software Engineer
