Archive for March, 2007
March 30, 2007
Triumphant Trio
crazytallblond posted a photo:
Wow, I’m good at writing cheesy titles. Sophie, Megan, and Domonique in the 100. Home meet vs Salinas.
Running via Flickr
March 29, 2007
Paris 20k 2006 4a
He ran, biked enough to circle the globe
If he were running and bicycling around the world, Chuck Lewis figures, he would have circled the globe already.
Since the late 1990s, Lewis, 73, has accumulated more than 10,000 miles of running, and just more than 16,000 miles of pedaling.
Once around the world is about 24,900 miles, Lewis said.
“I’m working on my second lap.”
Lewis, who moved to Mount Dora with his wife, Elizabeth, in 2003, usually starts his day by lacing up his running shoes for a three- to six-mile jog. Later that day, he takes a 12-mile bike ride.
“It’s relaxing,” he said. “I enjoy doing it.”
Read the rest at the Orlando Sentinel
March 28, 2007
The longer the leg, the fewer calories used
That leggy friend who looks better than you in shorts also burns fuel more efficiently while walking or running, a researcher has found.
Herman Pontzer, a biological anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, made this discovery while testing a mathematical model for calculating energy costs for locomotion. He found that a tall person walking the same distance as a short person of identical weight and gait burns fewer calories, because longer legs are more efficient.
Read the rest at the Winston-Salem Journal
