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I've been thinking about you all week and hope you enjoy the newsletter as much as I enjoy creating it! If you want a little MOAR, the outtakes are below!
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Coach MK
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The Nike F*uckery
Nike makes incredible commercials. I love their unwavering support of my hero, Serena. But I don’t buy their products and I’m pretty sure I never will. This has been an open secret for decades. Am glad the public kinda sorta gives a poo.
Congress got involved: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/05/21/congresswomen-press-nike-about-its-treatment-pregnant-athletes/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.82f3e1808955
Not Running
Lance Armstrong has no regrets. Honestly, I’m not surprised. Don’t hate the player hate the rigged game that prosecutes on a super selective basis. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cycling-armstrong-idUSKCN1ST2Q8
TATIANA MCFADDEN IS EVERTYHING: https://www.self.com/story/paralympic-medalist-tatyana-mcfadden-on-fighting-for-equal-rights
Following a serious accident, this pro athlete is rising from the ashes: https://www.womensrunning.com/2019/05/get-inspired/hillary-allen-is-starting-from-scratch_102352
Correct, you do NOT want a child prodigy: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/opinion/sunday/kids-sports-music-choices.html
This book is gonna be part of the fall book club Coach Sarah and I will be leading: https://www.outsideonline.com/2397028/david-epstein-range-book-generalists
Um, NO NO NO NO NO (but boy she ripped) https://www.muscleandfitness.com/athletes-celebrities/news/woman-held-plank-over-four-hours-break-world-record
Drugs
Another one bites the dust: https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a27545933/eunice-kirwa-suspended-epo/
I’m sorry, but the name “Integrity Unit” really gives the public the wrong idea. This task force is….UGH. https://www.si.com/olympics/2019/05/21/eunice-kirwa-doping-epo-suspended-athletics-integrity-unit-olympic-marathon-silver-medalist
Ahem. *cringe* https://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/04/desi-linden-alberto-salazar-says-jordan-hasay-totally-prepared-elite-women-boston/
Trail Running
Outside Magazine published a piece of trash this week. Don’t read it. Just read Canadian Running’s response: https://runningmagazine.ca/trail-running/outside-online-slams-trail-running-community/
Canadian Running’s response to a click-baity trash article from Outside; https://runningmagazine.ca/trail-running/outside-online-slams-trail-running-community
Strava made me do it… https://trailflow.co/2019/05/24/strava-made-me-do-it/
Darcy is a BADASS: https://www.womensrunning.com/2019/05/get-inspired/darcy-piceu-is-a-an-ultra-explorer_102403
This just crushes so many people: https://runningmagazine.ca/trail-running/hardrock-100-may-be-cancelled/
Click-baity and WORTH IT.
Business
Hoka is killing it, to no one’s surprise: https://sgbonline.com/hoka-shines-as-deckers-brands-crushes-q4-eps-expectations/
Age is nothing but free time since the rest of the world has presumed you’re already at the glue factory.
Mary Cain disappeared. More on that here, gives insight to the business of this sport: http://citiusmag.com/citius-mag-podcast-mary-cain-nike-oregon-project-comeback/
Science
Elite athletes and mental health: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/11/667
Proprioception MATTERS, you guys: https://www.womensrunning.com/2019/05/cross-training/improve-your-balance-with-these-moves_102387
I had nowhere else to put this, but we don’t have good science yet to pick outliers like this poor girl yet: https://www.foxnews.com/us/cleveland-marathon-runner-22-dies-after-collapse-near-finish-line
Everything I know about Fibonacci I learned from MathNet. In my head, a parrot is chanting, “one one two three…” https://simplifaster.com/articles/the-fibonacci-sequence-and-athlete-development/
More on aerobic fitness and cancer: https://www.outsideonline.com/2396717/fitness-levels-cancer-risk-correlation
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