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		<title>Visualize Your Training in Google Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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Like many runners, I’m a bit obsessive about data.  I love to collect it.  I love to analyze it.  I love to spend time visualizing with maps, graphs, charts and long lists of numbers.  After all of my data is imported from my Garmin 405 and I’ve reviewed the hard numbers from the day’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired of Rehab Exercises? Hit the Trails to Regain Strength!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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Recovering from a lower leg injury and want to start running again?  Try hitting the trails to regain strength.  Includes 7 tips for recovery trail running.

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		<title>Warning Signs for Runners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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No, this isn&#8217;t a 2,000 word essay on listening to your body, avoiding injury and running safe.  It&#8217;s just a picture of a silly little sign that I saw today on the drive through the woods to the trailhead.  Normally I&#8217;d simply consider this a run-of-the-mill &#8220;children at play&#8221; sign, only, I wa
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		<title>Shoe Companies to Phase Out Motion Control Shoes</title>
		<link>http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/shoe-companies-to-phase-out-motion-control-shoes</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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Last week, a new article over on the Runner&#8217;s World website caught my eye.  Authored by William Roberts, MD, it appeared in their Ask the Sports Doc section and was entitled The Mechanics of Barefoot Running.  I&#8217;m always excited to see something on the topic of barefoot running appear over there,
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		<title>Scott Jurek Talks Diet, Exercise and Running for 24 Hours in NY Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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Scott Jurek, vegan ultramarathon athlete and seven-time consecutive winner of the Western States 100 (really, that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg) just alerted his Twitter followers to a great article about him in today&#8217;s New York Times.  Diet and Exercise to the Extremes, by Mark Bittman,
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		<title>Why A Barefoot Runner Would Put On Shoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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By now, if you’ve been following the postings on this blog, you’ve realized that barefoot running is more about the biomechanics of running barefoot than it is about running completely free of all footwear.  Sure, there are purists out there who swear by barefoot and barefoot only – skin
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		<title>Exploring the Placebo Effect &#8211; Great Boston Globe Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 21:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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[T]here’s enough data for doctors to start thinking of the placebo effect not as the opposite of medicine, but as a tool they can use in an evidence-based, conscientious manner. Broadly speaking, it seems sensible to make every effort to enlist the body’s own ability to heal itself&#8211;which is what, at bottom, placebos seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fleet Feet Sports in Pittsburgh is the Bee’s Knees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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While traveling through Pittsburgh, PA on my way toward West Virginia, I decided to take a short detour to Fleet Feet Sports, a shoe store in Mt. Lebanon, just south of the city proper.  Nationally, this franchise chain has nothing but the best reputation.  They claim to have expert staff that exh
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		<title>Sleep Deprivation, Running and Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 17:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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One of the most important weapons in the arsenal of any athlete, be they amateur or professional, is sleep.  Regular, deep, quality sleep.  In fact, sleep is one of the most important periods of the day for any person, be they athlete or not.  It&#8217;s when our bodies recuperate, rebuild and repa
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		<title>Immortal jellyfish and stem cell research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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Back in the 1990s, it was discovered that a certain type of jellyfish, Turritopsis nutricul, had the ability to revert from a mature stage of its lifecycle back into a more youthful one, and to repeat the process indefinitely, thereby granting it an indefinite &#8211; immortal - lifespan.
Nature being what it is, this rarely happens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running for the First Time Since Injury</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 01:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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Today was the day.  All the variables fell into place, and for the first time since my injury, I went for a run.
Here’s a quick video update regarding the experience.

Continue reading, and watching, on thebarefootexperiment.com
  Posted via web   from Roderick Russell / amalgamate.stream  

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		<title>How To Put On Vibram FiveFingers in Under 10 Seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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A common complaint about Vibram FiveFingers is that they are difficult to get on your feet.  I&#8217;ll admit, I found it a bit awkward to get them on my feet the first time in store, but the learning curve is not exactly steep.  If you put them on, oh, say, twice, you&#8217;ll probably be good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Put On Vibram FiveFingers in Under 10 Seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 19:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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 Okay, okay, this one might classify as trivial, but here it is nonetheless&#8230; 
A common complaint about Vibram FiveFingers is that they are difficult to get on your feet.  I&#8217;ll admit, I found it a bit awkward to get them on my feet the first time in store, but the learning curve is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omega-3 Supplements for Vegetarians and Vegans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 03:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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Maintaining a high-caliber and fairly consistent vegetarian diet for 16 years takes less work than one would think.  Yes, you need to think about your food, but we should all be doing that, regardless of your diet-of-choice.  It&#8217;s true that many people eliminate meat only to eat junk, and call the
Continue reading on thebarefootexperiment.com&#8230;
 

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		<title>Running Times on Minimalist Running</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 02:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Russell</dc:creator>
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A great article appeared in the April issue of Running Times entitled Much Ado About Minimalism.  The author did a great job of capturing the goal of minimalist running.  A goal that I wish many of the zealots would keep in mind.
Away from the hype and the extremes, the minimalist movement is rightly correcting [...]]]></description>
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