Jonathan speaks: site origins and coach-science conflict
I realised the other day that in the two and a half years that The Science of Sport has been running, very few of you have ever heard directly from us. Sure, there are posts and opinions and replies...
View ArticleChris Solinsky – the fastest “big guy” ever
The interesting stories are coming thick and fast just lately. Too fast to post on, which is why we didn’t cover the story of Chris Solinsky, who, last weekend, because the first American runner...
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Dear Sports Scientists: Will drinking fluids keep me cool?
First, if you did not catch the NY Velocity interview with Ross, be sure to—Andy Shen and co do a great job over there and produce some excellent interviews. Their site is a must read for any serious...
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Chicago Marathon 2010: Heat and performance
Just one day to go now before 10-10-10, as we continue our build up to Sunday. Earlier this week we took a look at some recent close finishes in the marathon world, two of which occurred here in...
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Boston strikes back: The Boston 2012 meltdown
Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop have won the 2012 Boston Marathon for Kenya. Surprise names, perhaps (particularly Korir), but you might, at first glance, call it “just another Kenyan victory”. It was...
View ArticleDangerous exercise: The hype of dehydration & heat-stroke
Let’s kick off 2013 with some thoughts on a sad, but important news story coming out of South Africa. I missed this one, being overseas at the time, but a colleague and I got to talking yesterday, and...
View ArticleMelting in Melbourne: Thoughts on the heat
Insane. Inhumane. Not healthy. Brutal. Life-threatening. Insert your adjective here, but these are some of the responses to the first two rounds of the Australian Open in Melbourne, where extreme...
View ArticleKenyan runner’s dramatic finish. But is it an “insult”&“slavery”?
Eliud Magut is a Kenyan athlete with a marathon best of 2:10. He’s now perhaps more famous because of the video posted below, showing his dramatic final kilometers in the Padova Marathon this past...
View ArticleThe physiology of the cold: Why might women out-‘survive’ men?
So this is a brief post, and it’s a written “mull”, in the sense that I wanted to share with you some thoughts. Not answers, just theories and thoughts about that absolutely fascinating 2018 Boston...
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