Elitetrack: Sport Training & Conditioning

Are we painting ourselves into a corner with this incessant chasing of records in swimming and track and field? Am I missing something? Is not the essence of sport competition? I maintain that that much of the current situation we have with performance enhancing drugs comes from this stress on records. I have been closely following the buildup into the Prefontaine Meet this weekend and all the hyp [...]

Can a genius be satisfied with themundane and the status quo? I was watching a documentary on movieproducer and director Sam Peckinpah. His approach made me thing aboutthis. He was always dancing on t [...]

Here's an ineteresting article I found in the Seattle Times from Blaine Newnham: When Jim Ryun first broke the world record in the mile in 1966,Walter Cronkite interrupted his nightly network [...]

If you ignore the problem it might go away.You have to ask why theyhave not been doing this all along. I think they do not real care aboutclean sport. They are more concerned with getting great marks, [...]

As many of you know I’m the proud father of a new baby girl. She’s now just over 6 months old. I love spending time with her and watching her physical, motor, and cognitive development. It [...]