I understand there are places in the US where winter is over, where people are pruning their lilacs and tuning up their bikes and Joe Bouscaren, for heaven’s sake, is roller skiing with a tire chasing him, but not in Seattle.  Up here in the wild northwest corner of the country, we are reveling in [...]

I have know many and treated some life-long aerobic endurance athletes with atrial arrythmias. At the ACSM conference 10 or so years ago I confirmed with leading experts that this was indeed a phenomenon worth looking into; now research proves it:
Endurance sport practice as a risk factor for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter.
Mont L, Elosua [...]

My first skate roller ski of the season, recorded on a Garmin 305 HRM, then viewed on Google Earth.
These are my two 5 km courses at Danahey Park, one is from my house (not shown due to scale), the second is a series of loops in the park to make 5km.
Notes: The first 5km was [...]

From Web MD:
Americans Low on Vitamin D
Study Shows Rise in Number of Americans With Low Vitamin D Levels
By Jennifer Warner
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC
March 25, 2009 — Low vitamin D levels among adults are fast becoming a growing epidemic and could spell trouble for the future health of the nation, according to [...]

From: NYTtoday
March 26, 2009
Personal Best
It’s Time to Make a Coffee Run
 
By GINA KOLATA
 

WELDON JOHNSON first tried caffeine as a performance enhancer in 1998. He was not a coffee drinker but had heard that caffeine could make him run faster. So he went to a convenience store before a race and drank a cup of coffee.
For [...]