Month: May 2020

The Business of Building Utopia

By Ann S. White 3 hours ago

I’ve listened to many peculiar items from Uber drivers. But this was a new one particular. 

“Are you guaranteed?” she requested, questioning my destination as I hopped into her motor vehicle at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport one particular night time past drop. “I’ve been driving Uber to and from the airport for 5 yrs now, and I’ve only taken somebody south twice.” North is the metropolis suitable and Atlanta’s countless suburban expanse. South is deep nation. The crickets get louder and the sidewalks vanish.

Tucked into Georgia’s remote Chattahoochee Hills, a mere 30 miles from one particular of America’s largest city … Read More

How Kara Goucher Stood Up to Running’s Goliath

By Ann S. White 5 hours ago

When Olympic marathoner Kara Goucher went public in 2015 with her accusation that her former mentor, the legendary Alberto Salazar, experienced skirted antidoping principles with the elite runners of the Nike Oregon Undertaking, she suffered an onslaught of criticism. The blowback set her back again fiscally and competitively—and manufactured her speculate if she experienced manufactured a awful slip-up. Then very last spring, Goucher spoke up all over again, becoming a member of former Nike teammates in a New York Moments op-ed about the company’s exercise of suspending feminine athletes’ pay during being pregnant. Nike shortly pledged alterations, and in the

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4 Theories About Overtraining | Outside Online

By Ann S. White 5 hours ago

There is no lack of theories about overtraining syndrome, a point out of pervasive fatigue and very poor effectiveness that lasts months or yrs and in some cases ends athletic careers. In reality, there are too lots of theories. It’s psychological, it’s neurological, it’s adrenal, it’s hormonal, it’s immunological, it’s cardiovascular—it would seem to affect quite significantly just about every system in the overall body, which would make it tricky to pinpoint the bring about.

A new paper from a team led by Johanna Lanner of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden provides the case for a seemingly clear perpetrator: the

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Erin Parisi's Historic Seven Summits Bid

By Ann S. White 19 hours ago

Colorado-based mostly mountaineer Erin Parisi first summited a single of the Seven Summits, Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro, as a man in 2011. In 2016, she came out publicly as a lady and has given that challenged herself to become the very first transgender mountaineer to comprehensive all of them. Transending, from Stept Studios, with guidance from Merrell, supplies a glimpse into how she’s making ready for that feat.… Read More

Bill Murray Made Me a Better Lifter

By Ann S. White 20 hours ago

I established a good deal of actual physical objectives. I experience like I have to preserve from becoming a fraud specified my job. I’ve woken up far more times in which I was disinterested in subsequent by way of than not. I never repeat affirmations or enjoy movies of hero workouts established to motivational music. I flip on Casablanca.

 

It’s a classic really like tale, an aged-time movement image. It’s also a commentary on what is demanded for an actual virtuous act of sacrifice.

 

 

Rick Blaine, performed by Humphrey Bogart, owns a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco a even now neutral

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